- 看过 forestallment 的人也看了 :
- hinder
- prevent
- thwart
- avert
- preclude
- deter
- anticipate
- delay
- monopolize
- preoccupy
forestallment 的定义
- to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance: to forestall a riot by deploying police.
- to act beforehand with or get ahead of; anticipate.
- to buy up in advance in order to increase the price when resold.
- to prevent sales at by buying up or diverting goods.
forestallment 近义词
等同于 obviation
等同于 preclusion
更多forestallment例句
- The field of flags on the Mall simulated a gathering of all the president’s supporters who couldn’t be there, and forestalled the optics of him being sworn in before an empty field.
- To forestall such violence, Congress set up a commission to settle the dispute.
- They may allow the utility to forestall millions of dollars in cleanup costs outlined by the December 2014 regulations.
- After months of casting doubt on their efficacy in slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus, he decided not to send a strong message on the matter even while infected — a decision that seemed to forestall the possibility of an about-face.
- Now climate change has made it hotter and drier than ever before, and the fire we’ve been forestalling is going to happen, fast, whether we plan for it or not.
- The invasion of Crimea, however, shows that the Putin has chosen to forestall change with the help of foreign aggression.
- Lukashenko had hoped that the biting cold of December would forestall protests.
- The way to beat them is not to forestall or worry about who scored points today.
- Chavez could be declared "temporarily absent," a narrowly legal if baldly political maneuver to forestall succession.
- The problem is that in an effort to forestall an Israeli strike, Obama is making war pledges now.
- "Why, you—" Mandleco gave a snort of anger and started forward, but Beardsley managed to forestall him.
- Am I suddenly to obtain some post, and do people know it, or foresee it, because they forestall me and bow to me first?
- "You would only forestall my own blow," she said quietly, and there was new silence.
- They will report this to the rulers unless we forestall them.
- The Russians, recognizing their peril, completed the assembly of their forces to attack the allies and forestall them.