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Foregone

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. Past participle of forego1.

adj. Having gone before; previous.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Past participle of forego

adj. previous, former

adj. bygone

adj. inevitable, predictable

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. past; -- used of time. Contrassted to present.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

That has gone before; previous; past; former.

Predetermined; made up or settled beforehand.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. well in the past; former

Word Usage

"Under the base case, a BHP takeover would cost $200 million a year over a decade in foregone government revenue, or 2% of the total, and would present "minimal" risk to the province."

Equivalent

past

Antonym

present

Form

foregone conclusion

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

bygone by-past departed gone past

Verb Stem

forego

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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