forestall
vt. 预先阻止, 先...一步行动, 占先一步, 垄断, 阻碍 [法] 先采取行动预防或阻止, 垄断
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释义与例句
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1.
Something situated or placed in front.
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An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
历史 废旧
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To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
及物Fred forestalled disaster by his prompt action.
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2.
To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
及物In French, an aspired h forestalls elision.
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3.
To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
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To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
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To deprive (with of).
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To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
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词源
From Middle English forstal, from Old English foresteall (“an intervention, hindrance (of justice), ambush, assault, offence of waylaying on the highway, fine for such an offence, resistance, opposition”), equivalent to fore- + stall.
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