fore-save

See also: foresave

English

Verb

fore-save (third-person singular simple present fore-saves, present participle fore-saving, simple past and past participle fore-saved)

  1. Alternative form of foresave
    • 1907, Peter Taylor Forsyth, Positive Preaching and Modern Mind, page 140:
      […] a purpose in which God foreknew what He was about, fore-ordained the soul, the race, unto salvation, and fore-saved and justified it before our day, and indeed before the day of Time.
    • 1937, Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the International Woodworkers of America:
      I pleaded with him and tried to smooth the thing over and told them that I thought he was just fore-saving these things in case it did arise, but the rest of us just don't say anything about a wage-cut, because we're not going to accept one and [...]
    • 1984, Jagmohan, The Challenge of Our Cities, page 30:
      Allotment on hire-purchase basis would also instil a habit of fore-saving and set in deflationary tendencies in the economy.
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