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forces majeures

forces majeures is the plural of force majeure.

Meaning of force majeure

Noun

force majeure (usually uncountable, plural forces majeures)

  1. (usually) An overwhelming force.
    • They [children] realize their oughts no less sharply than their crosses; and this even though they are midgets in a land of giants who have forgotten much of their language and whose right is often founded solely on force majeure.1930, Walter de la Mare, Poems for Children, London: Constable & Co., →OCLC, page xxix; republished in “[The Children’s Bookshop] Children and Childhood”, in Henry Seidel Canby, editor, The Saturday...
  2. (usually) An unavoidable circumstance, especially one that prevents someone from fulfilling a legal (usually contractual) obligation.
    • Brazil's largest trader of sugar and ethanol declared force majeure to some third party exporters of sugar with contracts to ship through its Santos Port terminal that burned down on Friday, sources in the sugar trade said.2013 October 22, “Brazil’s Copersucar Declares Force Majeure to 3rd Party Sugar Shippers”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023

Questions about forces majeures

What is forces majeures the plural of?
Forces majeures is the plural of force majeure.

Words near forces majeures in the dictionary

  1. forcer
  2. forcers
  3. forces
  4. forces down someone's throat
  5. forces in
  6. forces majeures
  7. forces of habit
  8. forces of nature
  9. forces one's way
  10. forces out
  11. forces someone's hand

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