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forestaller

forestaller noun: one who preemptively purchases goods in order to drive up their market price for resale.

Noun

forestaller (plural forestallers)

  1. (historical) One who preemptively purchases goods in order to drive up their market price for resale.
  2. (historical) A device that overrides an automatic brake signal.
  3. (archaic) One who obstructs a road, especially in order to intercept traffic.

Forms of forestaller

pluralforestallers

Origin of forestaller

From Middle English forstaller, forstallor, forstallar, equivalent to forestall + -er.

Questions about forestaller

What does forestaller mean?
Forestaller means one who preemptively purchases goods in order to drive up their market price for resale.
What part of speech is forestaller?
Forestaller is a noun.
What is the plural of forestaller?
The plural of forestaller is forestallers.

Words near forestaller in the dictionary

  1. forestaled
  2. forestaling
  3. forestall
  4. forestallable
  5. forestalled
  6. forestaller
  7. forestallers
  8. forestallest
  9. forestalleth
  10. forestalling
  11. forestallingly

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