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foreseeable, a.|fɔəˈsiːəb(ə)l|
[f. prec. + -able.]
That may be foreseen. Freq. in phr. foreseeable future.
1804W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 367 A rise and a fall foreseeable. 1840Mill Diss. & Disc., Bentham (1859) I. 387 The morality of an action depends on its foreseeable consequences. 1932Nation June 613 The population problem..does not seem likely to be solved in the foreseeable future. 1958Spectator 22 Aug. 241/3 Nobody is going, within the fore⁓seeable future, to lay a finger on the trade unions. 1959Cambr. Rev. 2 May 469/1, I cannot picture fewer motorists in the city during the foreseeable future. 1965New Statesman 30 Apr. 672/3 The sad fact is that, in the readily foreseeable future, governments have to persuade us to ration ourselves to one child each on the average.
Add: Hence foreseeaˈbility n., capability of being foreseen (freq. in legal contexts);also foreˈseeably adv.
1928Federal Reporter (U.S.) XXVII. 668/2 Nor is foreseeability necessarily the only test. 1930Yale Law Jrnl. XXXIX. 450 An act is..only negligent in relation to those who are foreseeably within the risk of injury. 1951Law Rep. King's Bench Division I. 466 The test of the exception is foreseeability. If you can foresee the possibility of a man moving into contact with the machinery, when unfenced, it is clearly not as safe as if securely fenced. 1965M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate vii. 247 This..never [occurred] before to so large an extent that the balance could not foreseeably right itself in Joe's favour within a short time. 1984National Law Jrnl. (U.S.) 27 Aug. 17/2 The engineer's analysis establishes the foreseeability and predictability of the event. 1987Financial Times 9 Oct. i. 38 The petrol refining industry can produce lead-free fuel at a far more economic price than bio-ethanol could foreseeably offer. |