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forestallers

forestallers is the plural of forestaller.

Meaning of forestaller

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.

Questions about forestallers

What is forestallers the plural of?
Forestallers is the plural of forestaller.

Words near forestallers in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forestallers (page history and authors); forestaller (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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