What does forestaller mean?
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fore·staller
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forestallernoun
A person who forestalls, especially one who buys goods before they can be sold on the open market in anticipation of rising prices
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Forestallernoun
One that anticipates the market; one that purchases before others to raise the price.
Etymology: from forestall.
Commodities, good or bad, the workman must take at his master’s rate, or sit still and starve; whilst, by this means, this new sort of ingrossors or forestallers having the feeding and supplying this numerous body of workmen, set the price upon the poor landholder. John Locke.
Webster Dictionary
Forestallernoun
one who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of forestaller in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of forestaller in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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