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- noun Plural form of
forestaller .
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Examples
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Political economy has taught us that those old bugbears of the statute law called forestallers and regraters are eminent benefactors, in as far as their mercenary instincts enable them to see scarcity from afar, and induce them to "hold on" precisely so long as it lasts but no longer, since, if they have stock remaining on hand when abundance returns, they will be losers.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Some days after the riot the Lord Mayor issued a proclamation giving permission to "foreign bakers and others" to bake bread in Dublin; he also sent to all the churchwardens of the city to furnish him with information of any persons who had concealed corn on their premises; he denounced "forestallers," who met in the suburbs the people coming in with provisions, in order to buy them up before they reached the market; thus in a great measure justifying the rioters who were whipped and transported.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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We have turned out against the enemy and we will not be eaten up by the monopolizers and forestallers.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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We have turned out against the enemy and we will not be eaten up by the monopolizers and forestallers.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The millions of dollars spent by Congress in support of the army had spawned a whole new class of businessmen, a hustling array of “merchants, monopolizers, farmers, sharpers, forestallers, mushroom traders” as one wry patriot put it, “outdoing one another” in a manner bewildering to those who yearned for the staid pace of prewar life.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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“The public wealth is plundered by defaulters, and the whole country imposed on by forestallers and monopolizers.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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“The public wealth is plundered by defaulters, and the whole country imposed on by forestallers and monopolizers.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The millions of dollars spent by Congress in support of the army had spawned a whole new class of businessmen, a hustling array of “merchants, monopolizers, farmers, sharpers, forestallers, mushroom traders” as one wry patriot put it, “outdoing one another” in a manner bewildering to those who yearned for the staid pace of prewar life.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Similar accusations against “forestallers” and monopolizers would reverberate for the duration of the war.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Similar accusations against “forestallers” and monopolizers would reverberate for the duration of the war.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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