forestall
Pronunciation: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈstɔːl/
The English word “forestall” has 8 meanings listed here.
verb
- To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
- To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
- To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
- To deprive (with of).
- To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
noun
Etymology
From Middle English forestallen (“to forestall, intercept, ambush, way-lay”), from forestalle (“a forestalling, interception”), from Old English foresteall (“intervention, hindrance of justice, ambush”), from fore- (“ahead of, before”) + steall (“position”), equivalent to fore- + stall.
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