Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who forestalls; one who purchases merchandise before it comes to market in order to raise the price.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
forestalls , especially one whobuys goods before they can besold on theopen market in anticipation of rising prices
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Examples
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To _beg_ the question in debate, what economy of midnight oil! what a forestaller of premature wrinkles, and grey hairs!
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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To beg the question in debate, would be vast economy of midnight oil! and a great forestaller of wrinkles and grey hairs!
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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To beg the question in debate, would be vast economy of midnight oil! and a great forestaller of wrinkles and grey hairs!
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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To _beg_ the question in debate, what economy of midnight oil! what a forestaller of premature wrinkles, and grey hairs!
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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To beg the question in debate, is vast economy of midnight oil, and a wholesale forestaller of wrinkles and gray hairs.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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To beg the question in debate, is vast economy of midnight oil, and a wholesale forestaller of wrinkles and gray hairs.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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If he knows anything of the arts, of history, of economics, or of science, he had better forget it, or else use it as a forestaller would a knowledge of the time when prices should be raised.
Waiting for Daylight 1915
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By some of the dark ingenuities of that age of priestcraft a curious thing was discovered -- that if you kill every usurer, every forestaller, every adulterater, every user of false weights, every fixer of false boundaries, every land-thief, every water-thief, you afterwards discover by a strange indirect miracle, or disconnected truth from heaven, that you have no millionaires.
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Wars indeed there shall be in the world, great and grievous, and yet few on this score; rather shall men fight as they have been fighting in France at the bidding of some lord of the manor, or some king, or at last at the bidding of some usurer and forestaller of the market.
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Thomas was presented as a regrator or forestaller of barley and wheat at Snitterfield Court, held
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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