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Word: forestall (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Verb:

  • Archaic To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
  • transitive To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
  • transitive To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.

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