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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Past participle of forgo.
Wiktionary
- v. Past participle of forgo.
Etymologies
- Middle English forgon, from Old English forgān, go away, forgo : for-, for- + gān, to go; see ghē- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“The current deduction costs nearly $80 billion a year in forgone federal revenues.”
“Experts also warn against making interest-free loans, which can prompt tax snarls such as the IRS calling the forgone interest a taxable gift.”
The Wall Street Journal: How Low Rates Can Cut Your Tax Bill
“That popular vote which will be thrown about as a ringing endorsement in the weeks ahead has mainly been propped up by voters in what you can comfortably call forgone conclusion states.”
“She has responsibilities as Miss California USA that she has now basically kind of forgone, and has aligned herself with an organization that has -- it's already a heated and polarizing issue.”
“A more accurate transliteration of Marshallese might have forgone the b for a p, or spelled the word as the Marshallese do: Pikinni.”
“Has anyone ever forgone a hard copy that they really needed for environmental considerations?”
“Further, the city of Chicago is putting in about $20 million in a subsidy that comes from forgone future taxes on the site.”
“And, knowing that that Raven could never fly, he shared the idea with readers in 1993 to encourage them to consider forgone possibilities.”
“Which is perhaps why, in the wake of his comments about Hitler at this year's Cannes film festival, he's forgone the usual Hollywood catastrophe route of "taking some time out" and has instead jumped straight on the PR trail for new movie Melancholia.”
The Guardian: Lars von Trier is not a Nazi, he's just a naughty self-publicist
“What's as stake is not just a couple hundred million forgone taxable dollars a year by the U.S. Customs Service but rather the health and safety of the American people.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Reese Halter: Tons of Unrecognizable Honey
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