| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To lose, mislay or misplace.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To squander, waste or fritter. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To drop, sink, spill, galvanize or scuttle.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Present participle conjugation of the verb forfeit.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (forfeit) | 1. Lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property".[Wordnet]. 2. Lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime.[Wordnet]. 3. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.[Websters]. 4. To fail to keep an obligation.[Websters]. 5. To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.[Websters]. 6. In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: forfeiting, forfeited, forfeits, forfeiter, forfeiters, forfeitingly and forfeitedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FORFEITING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FORFEITING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Alienating or losing, as a right by an offense, crime or breach of condition.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Finance | The business of discounting medium-term promissory notes or drafts related to an international trade transaction. Repayments are semiannual and discounting is at a fixed rate; providing finance for exporters, where an agent accepts a bill of exchange from an overseas customer, he buys the bills at a discount, and collects the payments from the customer in due course. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of forfeit. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: forfeit
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Forfeit (baseball) | In rare cases, baseball games are forfeited, and the score is recorded with the forfeiting team scoring no runs; their opponents are credited with the same number of runs as innings scheduled. Thus, a forfeited professional baseball game score will be 9-0; most amateur leagues play seven-inning games, thus forfeits are recorded as 7-0. However, if a forfeit occurs in the middle of a official game in which the forfeiting team is losing, the score will be recorded as it stands at the point of forfeit. (references) | ||
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