fore-save

present singular third person fore-saves · participle present fore-saving · participle past fore-saved · past fore-saved

1. alternativeAlternative form of foresave.

   Allotment on hire-purchase basis would also instil a habit of fore-saving and set in deflationary tendencies in the economy.

   1984, Jagmohan, The Challenge of Our Cities, page 30

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   […] 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.

   1907, Peter Taylor Forsyth, Positive Preaching and Modern Mind, page 140

   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 [...]

   1937, Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the International Woodworkers of America