forgo
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
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- 5
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Definition of forgo
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.
“I've had to forgo my student discount in exchange for taking the job.”
“Mr. Hoyle, who does not believe many multiple-unit diesel services on secondary routes will resist for ever the road transport challenge, would forgo passenger traffic altogether on a little-used route in order to improve the quality of the freight working and reduce its costs by equating the average speed of all trains on the line concerned.”
“You might think that Americans buy roughly the same number of fitted sheets as flats. Or, considering the market for electric blankets, duvets, and other covers, that consumers buy even more bottom sheets, simply forgoing the tops.”
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verb
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(transitive)To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.
“I've had to forgo my student discount in exchange for taking the job.”
“Mr. Hoyle, who does not believe many multiple-unit diesel services on secondary routes will resist for ever the road transport challenge, would forgo passenger traffic altogether on a little-used route in order to improve the quality of the freight working and reduce its costs by equating the average speed of all trains on the line concerned.”
“You might think that Americans buy roughly the same number of fitted sheets as flats. Or, considering the market for electric blankets, duvets, and other covers, that consumers buy even more bottom sheets, simply forgoing the tops.”
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(literary, transitive)To refrain from, to abstain from.
“I shall forgo actually stepping inside, thank you.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English forgon (“to go by, pass up”), from Old English forgān (“to go away, forgo”); equivalent to for- + go.
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