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{"id": "forestall", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "forestall", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "forestaller", "text": "forestaller"}, {"id": "forestalment", "text": "forestalment"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["Old English foresteall \u2018an ambush\u2019 (see fore- and stall). As a verb the earliest sense (Middle English) was \u2018intercept and buy up goods before they reach the market, so as to raise the price\u2019 (formerly an offence)"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/forestall_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "f\u0254\u02d0\u02c8st\u0254\u02d0l"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking advance action"], "examples": [{"text": "they will present their resignations to forestall a vote of no confidence"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0381170.005", "shortDefinitions": ["prevent or obstruct anticipated event or action by taking advance action"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["act in advance of (someone) in order to prevent them from doing something"], "examples": [{"text": "he would have spoken but David forestalled him"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0381170.011", "shortDefinitions": ["act in advance of"]}, {"definitions": ["buy up (goods) in order to profit by an enhanced price."], "domainClasses": [{"id": "commerce", "text": "Commerce"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0381170.012", "registers": [{"id": "historical", "text": "Historical"}], "shortDefinitions": ["buy up goods in order to profit by enhanced price"]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "pre-empt"}, {"language": "en", "text": "get in before"}, {"language": "en", "text": "get ahead of"}, {"language": "en", "text": "steal a march on"}, {"language": "en", "text": "anticipate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "second-guess"}, {"language": "en", "text": "nip in the bud"}, {"language": "en", "text": "thwart"}, {"language": "en", "text": "frustrate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "foil"}, {"language": "en", "text": "stave off"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ward off"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fend off"}, {"language": "en", "text": "avert"}, {"language": "en", "text": "preclude"}, {"language": "en", "text": "obviate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "prevent"}, {"language": "en", "text": "intercept"}, {"language": "en", "text": "check"}, {"language": "en", "text": "block"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hinder"}, {"language": "en", "text": "impede"}, {"language": "en", "text": "obstruct"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "forestall", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0005930.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "forestall"}], "type": "headword", "word": "forestall"}], "word": "forestall"}
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