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Sold vs Forestaller - What's the difference?

sold | forestaller |

As nouns the difference between sold and forestaller

is that sold is (obsolete) solary; military pay while 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 sold

is (sell).

sold

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • (sell)
  • Derived terms
    * oversold

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) solde. See soldier, and compare sou.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) solary; military pay
  • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

    forestaller

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who forestalls, especially one who buys goods before they can be sold on the open market in anticipation of rising prices
  • 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.