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Forestaller
Forestaller Fore*stall"er, n. One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. --Locke.
To forestall the market
An ugly serpent which forestalled their way. --Fairfax. But evermore those damsels did forestall Their furious encounter. --Spenser. To be forestalled ere we come to fall. --Shak. Habit is a forestalled and obstinate judge. --Rush. 3. To deprive; -- with of. [R.] All the better; may This night forestall him of the coming day! --Shak. 4. (Eng. Law) 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 forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; to dissuade persons from bringing their goods or provisions there; or to persuade them to enhance the price when there. This was an offense at law in England until 1844. --Burrill. Syn: To anticipate; monopolize; engross.

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- Engrossing, forestalling and regrating were marketing offences in English, Welsh and Irish common law. The terms were used to describe unacceptable methods...
- USS Forrestal (CVA-59) (later CV-59, then AVT-59), was a supercarrier named after the first United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Commissioned...
- occupied the strategically important Faroe Islands (part of Denmark) to forestall a German invasion. British troops left shortly after the end of the war...
- The Forestalling, Regrating, etc. Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 24) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed for the United Kingdom...
- Prince Rupprecht king or general state commissioner in an attempt to forestall the rise of the ****s to power in the state. Bavaria, ruled by the House...
- remains by treating them with embalming chemicals in modern times to forestall decomposition. This is usually done to make the deceased suitable for...
- defeat, but had begun to realize that drastic measures were required to forestall inevitable offensives on the Reich. The first such stronghold was Stalingrad...
- realizing his preliminary objective of mobilizing Western Nigerians to forestall the NCNC control of the Western Region and the subsequent aim of cooperating...
- to other European cities. The modernization efforts were not enough to forestall the decline of the Ottoman Empire. With the Young Turk Revolution in 1908...
- prosecutor charged that Mr. Weinberger's efforts to hide his notes may have 'forestalled impeachment proceedings against President Reagan' and formed part of...