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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forfeit
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
right
▪ They had not only forfeited the right to a political vote.
▪ Because of his absence from the trial he forfeited all rights to appeal.
▪ Unfortunately, on becoming a bishop you forfeit your right to that particular principle.
▪ Whatever may have happened, it was treated as an act of war and in these circumstances the perpetrators forfeited all rights.
▪ Those who did not sign would forfeit some legal rights.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If a team does not show up with enough players, they forfeit the game.
▪ Pregnant teenage girls will have to live with their parents or forfeit their benefits.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And once it has forfeited the power to act, the organization becomes both reactive and reactionary.
▪ Before the departure for Paris, Mrs Maugham fortunately forfeited her position by various gratuitous and irrelevant remarks about the expense.
▪ Bidders are now required to post six-figure performance bonds, to be forfeited upon failure.
▪ In hospital, however, the patient usually forfeits this responsibility and becomes dependent on nursing, medical and pharmaceutical staff.
▪ The illusion of mastery would prove difficult to forfeit, however, and would plague them throughout the first year.
▪ The same rule applies to athletes who forfeit their scholarships entirely.
▪ The tribunal concluded that he should be dismissed and banned for three years from public office, forfeiting his seat in parliament.
▪ They had not only forfeited the right to a political vote.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Dorsey High football team was declared the winner by forfeit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If the plate falls the player must pay a forfeit.
▪ It was vital here to pay proper attention to every step, or the river would claim forfeit.
▪ Thereafter, with both players short of time and in some danger of losing by time forfeit, Kasparov counter-attacked.
▪ They insist that the forfeit of self-esteem must be paid.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forfeit

Forfeit \For"feit\, n. [OE. forfet crime, penalty, F. forfait crime (LL. forefactum, forifactum), prop. p. p. of forfaire to forfeit, transgress, fr. LL. forifacere, prop., to act beyond; L. foris out of doors, abroad, beyond + facere to do. See Foreign, and Fact.]

  1. Injury; wrong; mischief. [Obs. & R.]

    To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit.
    --Ld. Berners.

  2. A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.

    Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal Remit thy other forfeits.
    --Shak.

  3. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.

    Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of the day.
    --Goldsmith.

Forfeit

Forfeit \For"feit\, v. i.

  1. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.

  2. To fail to keep an obligation. [Obs.]

    I will have the heart of him if he forfeit.
    --Shak.

Forfeit

Forfeit \For"feit\, p. p. or a. In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
--Shak.

Once more I will renew His laps[`e]d powers, though forfeite.
--Milton.

Forfeit

Forfeit \For"feit\, a. [F. forfait, p. p. of forfaire. See Forfeit, n.] Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

Thy wealth being forfeit to the state.
--Shak.

To tread the forfeit paradise.
--Emerson.

Forfeit

Forfeit \For"feit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Forfeiting.] [OE. forfeten. See Forfeit, n.] To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.

[They] had forfeited their property by their crimes.
--Burke.

Undone and forfeited to cares forever!
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forfeit

late 14c., forfet, "misdeed, offense against established authority," also "something to which the right is lost through a misdeed," from Old French forfet, forfait "crime, punishable offense" (12c.), originally past participle of forfaire "transgress," from for- "outside, beyond" (from Latin foris; see foreign) + faire "to do" (from Latin facere; see factitious). A French version of Medieval Latin foris factum; the notion perhaps is to "do too much, go beyond (what is right)." As an adjective from late 14c., from Old French forfait. Compare foreclose.

forfeit

mid-14c., " transgress, offend, misbehave;" late 14c., "to lose by misconduct," from forfeit (n.) or from Anglo-French forfet, Old French forfait, past participle of forfaire. Related: Forfeited; forfeits; forfeiting.

Wiktionary
forfeit
  1. Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure. n. 1 A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor. 2 A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc. 3 Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game. 4 (context obsolete rare English) Injury; wrong; mischief. v

  2. 1 To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance 2 To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules 3 To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress. 4 To fail to keep an obligation.

WordNet
forfeit

adj. surrendered as a penalty [syn: confiscate, forfeited]

forfeit
  1. n. something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty; [syn: forfeiture]

  2. a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something; "the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time" [syn: forfeiture]

  3. the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. [syn: forfeiture, sacrifice]

forfeit

v. lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime [syn: give up, throw overboard, waive, forgo] [ant: claim]

Wikipedia
Forfeit

Forfeit or forfeiture may refer to:

Forfeit (baseball)

In rare cases, baseball games are forfeited, usually when a team is no longer able to play. In the event of forfeiture, the score is recorded as 9-0, as stated in rule 2.00 of the Major League Baseball Rules Book. However, the actual game statistics are recorded as they stand at the time of the forfeit; the game is recorded as a loss in the standings for the forfeiting team and a win for the other team, even if the forfeiting team is ahead at that point. The 9-0 score equates to the number of innings in a regulation game. Sports with seven-inning games, such as high school baseball or softball, generally award a rule-based score of 7-0.

Although not uncommon in baseball's early days, forfeits are now rare. There have been only five forfeits in Major League Baseball since 1954; the last forfeit was in 1995 and prior to that the last one had been in 1979. Since 1914, there has only been one incident where a team deliberately made a decision to forfeit a game, in 1977.

Forfeit (sport)

In various sports, a forfeit is a method in which a match automatically ends and the forfeiting team loses.

There are two distinct forms of forfeiture. One occurs when a team is unable to meet the basic standards for playing the game, either before the game begins or as a result of actions that happen during the match. In such a case, the team not forfeiting wins the match. The other is punitive forfeiture, in which a team has been found to have broken the rules of a sanctioning body during a match they have won and must have the results stricken from the record; whether or not the other team receives a win in such a case depends on the rules of that body.

Usage examples of "forfeit".

It was manifestly unfair that they should be made to forfeit property because the conditions under which it was held could no longer be legally complied with.

By Fijian custom the lives of all castaways were forfeit, but the pretence to supernatural powers would have saved men full of the religious rites of their Melanesian home, and would have assured them a hearing.

Rockford Club is credited with only six games won and is given the last position in the championship race, several of the games with the Athletics being among those declared forfeited.

After he was caught for the third time hauling up endangered groundfish in forbidden biomass nets, he was told his license was forfeit.

There was even a theory, creditable to Hans Holbein, drawn from this conclusion, that he might have adopted the Protestant views of his late gracious master, and have stood by them stoutly, and so far forfeited all recognition from the bitter Catholic Mary.

To her merits and intercession I have granted your life, and permit you to retain a part of your treasures, which might be justly forfeited to the state.

And though Monimia had forfeited all title to his regard, so ill could he bear the prospect of her distress, that he entrusted his dear companion with the half of what remained, to be expended for her use, fully resolving to screen her from the shocks and temptations of want, as the circumstances of his future fate would allow.

From Henry, they had received grants of forfeited estates, both in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire.

Major Major had forfeited the authority when he permitted Sergeant Towser to report the lieutenant who had been killed over Orvieto less than two hours after he arrived in the squadron as never having arrived in the squadron at all.

The earl was willing to do things that would benefit hundreds of people, and it would be madness to forfeit that because of a spinsterish attack of nerves.

He had long ago forfeited his mouser duties to the younger and sprier Miss Minx, who, as usual, was nowhere to be seen.

It is a Talmudical as much as it is a Pauline idea, that the triumphant power of the Messiah would restore what the unfortunate fall of Adam forfeited.

Dennis Bond, esquire, and Serjeant Birch, commissioners for the sale of the forfeited estates, were declared guilty of notorious breach of trust, and expelled the house, of which they were members: George Robinson, esquire, underwent the same sentence on account of the part he acted in the charitable corporation, as he and Thompson had neglected to surrender themselves, according to the terms of a bill which had passed for that purpose.

By refusing to give up its WMD programs, Iraq forfeited all of that money, year after year.

To repeat: The Precrime Agency of the Federal Westbloc Government is in the process of locating and neutralizing its former Commissioner, John Allison Anderton, who, through the methodology of the precrime-system, is hereby declared a potential murderer and as such forfeits his rights to freedom and all its privileges.