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forebuy

verb

Etymology

From fore- + buy.

  1. derived from *bʰewgʰ-✻
  2. derived from *bʰūgʰ-✻
  3. inherited from *bugjaną✻
  4. inherited from *buggjan✻
  5. inherited from bycġan
  6. inherited from byen
  7. prefixed as forebuy — “fore + buy”

Definitions

  1. To buy beforehand

    To buy beforehand; accept or receive in advance.

    • Blessed are they who with forethought rightly live; for they have forebought a fortunate rebirth.
    • 1979, Pasture and politics: economics, conflict, and ritual among Shahsevan nomads of northwestern Iran ... buyers visit the camps soon after the shearing in good time to ensure that their forebought wool does not get into other hands.
    • ...so it will often happen that forethought is thus fore-bought or secured.

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