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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having forethought; characterized by premeditation.
  • noun The act of one who forecasts, or provides for consequences; premeditation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of forecast.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a statement made about the future

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