Forestaller vs Forestalled - What's the difference?
forestaller | forestalled |
A person who forestalls, especially one who buys goods before they can be sold on the open market in anticipation of rising prices
(forestall)
(obsolete, or, historical) An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
Something situated or placed in front.
To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
(archaic) To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
* Milton
* 1919 ,
To deprive (with of ).
* Shakespeare
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.
As a noun forestaller
is a person who forestalls, especially one who buys goods before they can be sold on the open market in anticipation of rising prices.As a verb forestalled is
past tense of forestall.forestaller
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Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
For at least a period of time in the late-18th century, under English Royal law, forestaller had a more narrow meaning which included the concept of not selling again in the same market within three months. By this de jure restriction, legislation attempted to distinguish between a socially useful function (storing grain for a potential future dearth) and an alleged socially harmful function of buying up grain so as to increase the price to the poor or needy by facilitating a so-called excess profit to the intermediary.forestalled
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Verb
(head)forestall
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) forstal, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
- In French, an aspired h forestalls elision.
- What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid?
- She insisted on doing her share of the offices needful to the sick. She arranged his bed so that it was possible to change the sheet without disturbing him. She washed him. She did not speak to him much, but she was quick to forestall his wants.
- All the better; may / This night forestall him of the coming day!
