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Forecast   /fˈɔrkˌæst/   Listen
noun
Forecast  n.  
1.
Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination. "He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves."
2.
A calculation predicting future events; the foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation; as, the weather forecast. "His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp."



verb
Forecast  v. t.  (past & past part. forecast or forecasted; pres. part. forecasting)  
1.
To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project. "He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds."
2.
To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for; as, to forecast the weather; to forecast prices. "It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences."



Forecast  v. i.  (past & past part. forecast or forecasted; pres. part. forecasting)  To contrive or plan beforehand. "If it happen as I did forecast."






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"Forecast" Quotes from Famous Books



... since it regained independence in 1991 largely because of the impact of the August 1998 Russian financial crisis. Estonia joined the WTO in November 1999 - the second Baltic state to join - and continued its EU accession talks. GDP is forecast to grow 4% in 2000. Privatization of energy, telecommunications, railways, and other state-owned companies will continue in 2000. Estonia expects to complete its preparations for EU membership by the end ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... measure will ever be resorted to by the South. It is by no means intended by this, to affirm, that the South, like a spoiled child, for the first time denied some favourite object, may not fall into sudden frenzy and do herself some great harm. But knowing as I do, the intelligence and forecast of the leading men of the South—and believing that they will, if ever such a crisis should come, be judiciously influenced by the existing state of the case, and by the consequences that would inevitably flow from an act of ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... French, German, Swedish and Polish, running into a six-figure issue, while my last novel, a sincere piece of literature, hung fire, so to speak, and never got beyond the publisher's preliminary forecast of a thousand copies. Was I not angry? Far from it. I was no puling undergraduate with a thin broad-margined book of verse to sell. The public was at perfect liberty to buy what it pleased. If they wanted my ...
— Aliens • William McFee

... geographic and historic factors of our city's life is thus the first step to comprehension of the present, one indispensable to any attempt at the scientific forecast of the future, which must avoid as far as it can the dangers of ...
— Civics: as Applied Sociology • Patrick Geddes

... in new civilizations, in missionary work in heathen lands, in schools, colleges, literature, and general society, it is fair to suppose that politics would prove no exception." We do not need to depend upon forecast or inference. The influence of women upon politics, and the influence of politics upon women, have already been degrading. This is true of political intrigue in the old world, and of the "Female Lobby" in Washington. It is astonishing to ...
— Woman and the Republic • Helen Kendrick Johnson


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