Foregoing

Definition: Foregoing

Foregoing

Adjective

1. Especially of writing or speech; going before.

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Date "foregoing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Foregoing

Precedence

Adjective: preceding; Verb: precedent, antecedent; anterior; prior; before; former; foregoing; beforementioned, abovementioned, aforementioned; aforesaid, said; precursory, precursive; prevenient, preliminary, prefatory, introductory; prelusive, prelusory; proemial, preparatory.

Priority

Adjective: prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre-existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; aforementioned, before-mentioned, abovementioned; aforesaid, said; introductory; (precursory).

The Past

Foregoing; last, latter; recent, over night; preterperfect, preterpluperfect.

Crosswords: Foregoing

The society betwixt parents and children, and the distinct rights and powers belonging respectively to them, I have treated of so largely, in the foregoing chapter, that I shall not here need to say any thing of it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads; Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; Clause 9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy; Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. (reference)

Subject to the foregoing, the form of such bonds shall be determined by the Reparation Commission. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

For older people, this strategy may mean foregoing services that have as yet unproved value. (references)

Business

Current and expected cost pressures have already compelled some firms to revamp their respective channels of distribution, such as foregoing local distributors and selling directly to hospitals. (references)

As a result of all of the foregoing, the final market is generally restricted to relatively affluent consumers who purchase these products for their convenience value, a very small segment of the local market. (references)

Using the statistical average annual sales per employee of $60,000 derived from the foregoing table, and recognizing the likely higher productivity, greater flexibility and less rigid accounting standards of smaller trucking and distribution firms, the logistics industry’s annual turnover is estimated to be between $35 billion and $40 billion. (references)

Economic History

Malaysia

There are more than 30 registered political parties, including the foregoing, not all of which are represented in the federal parliament. (references)

Trade

India

The Director General of Foreign Trade for small-scale industries not covered in the foregoing. (references)

Burma

Plastic household items, in addition to the foregoing items, are prohibited from import via border trade. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

paraprirës, i mëparshëm (antecedent, anterior, former, neoteric, previous, prior). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سابق (antecedent, anterior, back, elder, ex-, fore, former, harbinger, last, once, past, preamble, preceding, preliminary, previous, prior, quondam, race), ‏المذكور أعلاه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

гореспоменат (above mentioned, aforementioned), предшествуващ (aforegoing, antecedent, anterior, precedent, precursory, previous, prior). (various references)

Chinese 

前面 (frontal). (various references)

Czech

výše uvedený (above mentioned, aforesaid), předcházející (antecedent, past). (various references)

Dutch

en na gedane lezing hebben wij het onderhavig proces-verbaal ondertekend (and after having had the foregoing read aloud to us, we have signed the present instrument). (various references)

Finnish

edellinen (pre, preceding, previous), edelläoleva (preceding, previous). (various references)

French

précédent (former), déj� cité, cité ci-dessous. (various references)

German

vorhergehend (antecedent, anterior, precedent, preceding, previous). (various references)

Greek 

προηγούμενοσ (antecedent, anterior, anterior to, former, formerly, precedent, preceding, previous). (various references)

Hebrew 

קו�"ם (antecedent, anterior, before, beforehand, forerunner, former, preceding, previous, previously, prior). (various references)

Hungarian

megelőző (antecedent, anticipatory, preceding, preventive, previous, prior, prophylactic), előbb említett (above, premised, said). (various references)

Italian

precedente (former, late, precedent, preceding, previous, prior, record, sometime), anteriore (anterior, fore, former, forward, front, preceding, prior), antecedente (antecedent, previous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

上文 (the foregoing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じょうぶ�" (an imperial hearing, provisions, redundancy, text, the foregoing). (various references)

Korean 

앞 (fore). (various references)

Manx

roish shoh (erstwhile, previously), roie-raait (aforementioned), jerrinagh (absolute, belated, closing, concluding, conclusive, end, eventual, final, finalist, hindmost, last, late, late of fruit, latter, rearmost, ultimate, utmost), goll-roie. (various references)

Pig Latin

oregoingfay.(various references)

Portuguese

acima mencionado (above-mentioned, aforementioned, forementioned). (various references)

Romanian

precedent (above, example, last, precedent, preceding, previous, prior), anterior (above, anterior, fore, former, formerly, prevenient, previous, prior, prior to). (various references)

Russian 

предшествующий (aforegoing, antecedent, antecedental, anterior, preexisting, previous, prior). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predhodni (aforetime, antecedence, antecedent, precedent, preceding, precursory, previous), gorepomenuti. (various references)

Spanish

precedente (aforegoing, antecedent, former, precedent, preceding), antecedente (aforegoing, antecedent). (various references)

Swedish

föregående (aforegoing, antecedent, antecedents, anterior, former, last, precedent, previous), ovannämnd (above, above mentioned, abovementioned). (various references)

Turkish

yukarıdaki (above, above mentioned), önceki (antecedent, anterior, before, ex, ex-, former, hereinabove, last, old, onetime, pre-, preceding, previous, prior, pristine, pro-, quondam, sometime, the former). (various references)

Ukrainian

вищезгаданий (above mentioned, aforementioned, aforesaid, forementioned, foresaid, said, same), попередній (aforegoing, first, head, precedent, preceding, precursive, precursory, preliminary, previous, prior, tentative). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trước; đã nói ở trên; đã đề cập đến, những điều đã đề cập đến. (various references)

Misspellings

"Foregoing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Frugoni, fueguino. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: forgoing.

-2 letters: foggier, foreign, forging, forgone, goofier, goofing, roofing.

-3 letters: eringo, finger, fogger, forego, fringe, ginger, gooier, goonie, gorgon, goring, gringo, ignore, orgone, region.

-4 letters: feign, finer, fogie, forge, forgo, genro, giron, gofer, going, gonef, goner, gonif, gonof, gorge, grego, grief, groin, infer, irone, oorie, reign, renig.

-5 letters: ergo, fern, fine, fino, fire, firn, foin.

+4 letters: foregrounding.