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v. To delay, hinder, or prevent by taking precautionary measures beforehand. See Synonyms at prevent.

v. To deal with or think of beforehand; anticipate.

v. To prevent or hinder normal sales in (a market) by buying up merchandise, discouraging persons from bringing their goods to market, or encouraging an increase in prices in goods already on sale.

n. An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.

n. Something situated or placed in front.

v. To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.

v. To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.

v. To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.

v. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.

v. To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

v. To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance.

v. To deprive; -- with of.

v. To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.

To buy up, as merchandise, before it has reached the market or before market-hours, and hence by taking advantage of others in any way, with the intention of selling again at an unduly increased price.

In law, to obstruct or stop up, as away; intercept on the road.

To diminish; deprive by something preceding.

To take or bring forth in advance of something or somebody else; hinder by preoccupation or prevention; anticipate; prevent or counteract beforehand.

Synonyms To monopolize, engross, preoccupy.

n. A footboard.

n. The lookout man who walks before the operator and his victim when a garrote-robbery is to be committed. , verb

v. keep from happening or arising; make impossible

v. act in advance of; deal with ahead of time

"So rather than sort of eliminating politics it really might just kind of forestall it and really kind of rile it up over the next 48 months."

forestalled    forestalling    forestalls   

act    move   

to forestall the market   

stop    queer    ward off    stymy    save    bilk    scotch    block    fend off    deflect   

forestalment    forestallment    forestaller   

anticipate    monopolize    engross    preoccupy    deprive    prevent    hinder   

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