FORFEIT
\fˈɔːfɪt], \fˈɔːfɪt], \f_ˈɔː_f_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of FORFEIT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime
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a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something; "the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time"
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something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty;
By Princeton University
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lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime
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a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something; "the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time"
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something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty;
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Injury; wrong; mischief.
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Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
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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.
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To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
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To fail to keep an obligation.
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Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; - whence the game of forfeits.
By Oddity Software
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Injury; wrong; mischief.
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Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.
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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.
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To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
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To fail to keep an obligation.
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Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; - whence the game of forfeits.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To lose the right to by some fault or crime:-pr.p. forfeiting; pa.p. forfeited.
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That which is forfeited: a penalty for a crime: a fine: something deposited and redeemable.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To lose through some fault, neglect, or error.
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Forfeited.
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A thing lost by default.
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Any game in which some playful penalty is imposed.
By James Champlin Fernald
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