foregoing
/ˈfɔːɡəʊɪŋ
/formal
adjective [attributive]
Just mentioned or stated; preceding: the foregoing analysis of the economic class structure...
- The foregoing analyses adopt a comparative notion of reasonableness as a basic or primitive notion.
- The foregoing analysis of the historical and physical set-up of Kenya provides the background to the key challenges facing the country as it attempts to incorporate IT into its public school system.
- The foregoing analysis confirms what the parents of college-age children have known for some time: The real cost of higher education has risen well in excess of the rate at which real incomes have risen.
Synonyms
preceding, aforesaid, aforementioned, previously mentioned, earlier, above, above-stated;
antecedent, previous, prior
rare anterior, prevenient, precedent, precursive, supra
noun (the foregoing) [treated as singular or plural]
The things just mentioned or stated.As far as I can see, the foregoing constitutes the single most radical criticism of Islam available in the world....
- Proceeding from the foregoing, one may single out three strategically stable states of interstate military-political relations.
- People I have spoken to have found the foregoing hard to believe and communist policies have been mentioned more than once.
- Privy Council
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- Privy Councilship
- privy counsellor
- privy counsellorship
- privy house
- privy member
- privy parts
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- privy purse
- privy seal
- privy stool
- privy tithe
- privy verdict
- Prix de Rome
- prix fixe
- Prix Goncourt
- prizable
- prize
- prizeable
- prize agency
- prize agent
- prize book
- prize court