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The answer FORESTALL has 56 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of forestall in various dictionaries:
verb - keep from happening or arising
verb - act in advance of
To delay, hinder, or prevent by taking precautionary measures beforehand.
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| prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking advance action. |
| Prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking advance action. |
| keep from happening or arising have the effect of preventing |
| act in advance of deal with ahead of time |
| to prevent something from happening by acting first: |
| To delay, hinder, or prevent by taking precautionary measures beforehand. See Synonyms at prevent. |
| To deal with or think of beforehand anticipate. |
| 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. |
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Engrossing, forestalling and regrating were marketing offences in English common law. The terms were used to describe unacceptable methods of influencing the market, sometimes by creating a local monopoly for a certain good, usually food. The terms were often used together, and with overlapping meanings. They are obsolete. * Blackstone’s Commentaries described them as offences against public trade: * forestalling - the buying or contracting for any merchandise or victual coming in the way of the market; or dissuading persons from bringing their goods or provisions there; or persuading them to enhance the price, when there; any of which practices make the market dearer to the fair trader. * regrating - the buying of corn or other dead victual, in any market, and selling it again at the same market, or within four miles of the place. For this also enhances the prices of the provisions, as every successive seller must have a successive profit. * engrossing - the getting into one’s possession, or buying up, large quantities of corn, or other dead victuals, with intent to sell them again. This must of course be injurious to the public, by putting it in the power of one or two rich men to raise the price of provisions at their own discretion. * Blackstone described a monopoly as “the same offence in other branches of trade”, i.e., not food. |