foregone

Related to foregone: foregone conclusion

fore·gone

v. (fôr-gôn′, -gŏn′)

Past participle of forego¹

adj. (fôr′gôn′, -gŏn′)

Having gone before; previous.

Usage Note: The word foregone is occasionally used by itself as a truncation of the phrase a foregone conclusion, as in It is by no means foregone that the team will relocate to Baltimore next season. But the usage has not gained broad acceptance. More than 85 percent of Usage Panelists disapproved of this usage in our 2014 survey.

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foregone

(fɔːˈɡɒn; ˈfɔːˌɡɒn)

adj

gone or completed; past

foreˈgoneness n

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fore•gone

(fɔrˈgɔn, -ˈgɒn, foʊr-; ˈfɔrˌgɔn, -ˌgɒn, ˈfoʊr-)

adj.

having gone before; previous; past.

[1590–1600]

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Adj.

foregone - well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"

bygone, bypast, departed, gone

past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"

foregone

adjective

a foregone conclusion certainty, open-and-shut case, sure thing, dead cert (informal), cert (informal), shoo-in (U.S. & Canad.) The result is a foregone conclusion.

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Translations

مَحْتوم، مَفْروغٌ مِنْهُ

hotová věc

forudsigelig

vorhersehbar

prévu d'avance

scontato

iš anksto aiškus rezultatas

iepriekšzināms

på forhånd gitt

beklenen/kaçınılmaz sonuç

意料中的

foregone

[ˈfɔːgɒn]

A. PP of forego

B. ADJ it was a foregone conclusion → era un resultado inevitable

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foregone

[fɔː^rˈgɒn] adj
it's a foregone conclusion → c'est à prévoir, c'est couru d'avance
The result is a foregone conclusion → Le résultat ne fait aucun doute.

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foregone

ptp of forego

adj it was a foregone conclusion → es stand von vornherein fest

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foregone

[ˈfɔːˌgɒn]

1. pp of forego

2. adj it was a foregone conclusion → era un risultato scontato

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foregone

(ˈfoːgon) : a foregone conclusion

a result that is so obvious that it can be seen before it happens. It is a foregone conclusion who will win.

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Wolf Larsen looked curiously at him, as though about to probe and vivisect him, then changed his mind, as from the foregone conclusion that there was nothing there to probe.

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In September last year, the regulator had decided to levy a nominal fee of Rs 1 lakh per exchange instead of levying charges based on turnover slab rates and proposed to set up a fund with the fee foregone by it.

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The commonwealth argued the act of entering the password would not amount to self-incrimination because the defendant's knowledge of the password was already known to the commonwealth, and was therefore a "foregone conclusion" under the Fifth Amendment and Article 12.

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Quoting Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, Lambino said the DBCC cited non-essential international travel, replacement of vehicles and the possibility of "not filling positions that have been unfilled for a while." Lambino allayed fears that the foregone revenuesfrom the suspension of increase in excise taxes might adversely affect the delivery of social services and infrastructure development.

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Higher global oil prices will raise the government's collections from value-added tax (VAT) slapped on the commodity by P14 billion, narrowing the foregone revenues from the looming suspension of excise taxes, the Department of Finance (DOF) said Thursday.

High oil prices to boost tax collection by P14B

The adjusted earnings per share guidance range now reflects the estimated impact from the divestiture, including the following factors: foregone profit related to the U.S.

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On Friday, Najib claimed that revenue foregone in the current tax holiday was the reason for the shortfall.

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Based on data from the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Bureau of Customs, the government had foregone P74.53 billion in revenues from income-tax holidays, P46.66 billion from special income-tax rates, and P57.38 billion in customs duties.

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And the mood at the count at Birchwood Tennis Centre last night certainly seemed to suggest the outcome was a foregone conclusion.

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But the 55-year-old hasn't given up on his dreams of musical stardom and decides to self-fund a tour for his band, Foregone Conclusion.