transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To delay, hinder, or prevent (an event, for example) by taking action beforehand: synonym: prevent.

transitive verb. To delay, hinder, or prevent (someone) from doing something by taking action beforehand.

transitive verb. To prevent or hinder normal sales in (a market), as by buying up merchandise.

noun. The lookout man who walks before the operator and his victim when a garrote-robbery is to be committed. , verb

noun. A footboard.

To buy up, as merchandise, before it has reached the market or before market-hours, and hence by taking advantage of others in any way, with the intention of selling again at an unduly increased price.

In law, to obstruct or stop up, as away; intercept on the road.

To diminish; deprive by something preceding.

To take or bring forth in advance of something or somebody else; hinder by preoccupation or prevention; anticipate; prevent or counteract beforehand.

Synonyms To monopolize, engross, preoccupy.

transitive verb. To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

transitive verb. To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance.

transitive verb. To deprive; -- with of.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. 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.

verb. To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.

verb. To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.

verb. To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.

verb. To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.

noun. An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.

noun. Something situated or placed in front.

verb. keep from happening or arising; make impossible

verb. act in advance of; deal with ahead of time

"So rather than sort of eliminating politics it really might just kind of forestall it and really kind of rile it up over the next 48 months."

to forestall the market  

forestaller  forestallment  forestalment  

act  move  

Embarrass  avert  avoid  baffle  bilk  

Ball  Fall  Gaul  Hall  Montreal  

anticipate  anticipate  avert  bamboozle  bar  

forestalled  forestalling  forestalls