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fore·sight

(fôr′sīt′)

1. The ability or action of imagining or anticipating what might happen in the future.

2. Care in providing for the future: Spending all of your money at once shows little foresight.

fore′sight′ed adj.

fore′sight′ed·ly adv.

fore′sight′ed·ness n.

fore′sight′ful adj.

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foresight

(ˈfɔːˌsaɪt)

1. provision for or insight into future problems, needs, etc

2. the act or ability of foreseeing

3. the act of looking forward

4. (Surveying) surveying a reading taken looking forwards to a new station, esp in levelling from a point of known elevation to a point the elevation of which is to be determined. Compare backsight

5. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) the front sight on a firearm

ˌforeˈsighted adj

ˌforeˈsightedly adv

ˌforeˈsightedness n

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fore•sight

(ˈfɔrˌsaɪt, ˈfoʊr-)

n.

1. care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.

2. the act or power of foreseeing; prevision; prescience.

3. an act of looking forward.

4. knowledge or insight of the future.

[1250–1300]

fore′sight`ed, adj.

fore′sight`ed•ly, adv.

fore′sight`ed•ness, n.

fore′sight`ful, adj.

Foresight

of housekeepers: company of housekeepers, 15th century.

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Noun	1.	foresight - providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future foresightedness, foresightfulness providence - the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources
	2.	foresight - seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing prospicience, farsightedness, prevision knowing - a clear and certain mental apprehension

foresight

noun forethought, prudence, circumspection, far-sightedness, care, provision, caution, precaution, anticipation, preparedness, prescience, premeditation, prevision (rare) They had the foresight to invest in new technology.
neglect, hindsight, carelessness, thoughtlessness, imprudence, lack of foresight, unpreparedness, retrospection, inconsideration

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foresight

noun

1. Unusual or creative discernment or perception:

farsightedness, prescience, vision.

2. The exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters:

caution, circumspection, discretion, forehandedness, foresightedness, forethought, forethoughtfulness, precaution, prudence.

Translations

بَصيرَه، تَبَصُّر

prozíravost

forudseenhed

Voraussicht

adivinación previsión profecía

prévoyance prophétie sagesse divination

fyrirhyggja, framsÿni

divinazione precauzione previdenza previsione profezia

forutseenhet framsyn

previsão

predvidevanje

ileri görüş

先见之明

foresight

[ˈfɔːsaɪt] N → previsión f
to have or show foresight → ser previsor or precavido
he had the foresight to → tuvo la precaución de ...
lack of foresight → imprevisión f, falta f de previsión

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

foresight

[ˈfɔː^rsaɪt] n → prévoyance f

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foresight

n → Weitblick m

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foresight

[ˈfɔːˌsaɪt] n → previdenza

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foresee

(foːˈsiː) – past tense foreˈsaw (-ˈsoː) : past participle foreˈseen – verb

to see or know about before or in advance. He could foresee the difficulties.

foreˈseeable adjective

able to be foreseen. in the foreseeable future (= soon; within a short space of time).

ˈforesight (-sӕit) noun

the ability to see in advance what may happen and to plan for it. She had the foresight to drive carefully in case the roads were icy.

foresight

n. precaución, previsión.

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Everything had been calculated with a depth of precognition which, for the first time in thirty years, recalled to him the solid foresight and inflexible logic of the great cardinal.

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This providence is over my fate, that I have to be without foresight.

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It can harmonize, assimilate, and protect the several parts and members, and extend the benefit of its foresight and precautions to each.

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He had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, at work upon him.

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In this welcome provision she recognized her mother's foresight, and, on examining the gifts, she found a purse, in which the baroness had put the money belonging to her daughter, adding to it the amount of her own savings.

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* We cannot but marvel at Everhard's foresight. Before ever the thought of wonder cities like Ardis and Asgard entered the minds of the oligarchs, Everhard saw those cities and the inevitable necessity for their creation.

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Could a linguist, could a grammarian, could even a mathematician have seen what she did, have witnessed their appearance together, and heard their history of it, without feeling that circumstances had been at work to make them peculiarly interesting to each other?How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight!especially with such a groundwork of anticipation as her mind had already made.

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Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones.

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It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.

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The foresight of the convention has accordingly taken care that the progress of population may be accompanied with a proper increase of the representative branch of the government.

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By careful selection they rear only the hardiest specimens of each species, and with almost supernatural foresight they regulate the birth rate to merely offset the loss by death.

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One doubted, the other believed; one had a prudent foresight, the other blind confidence.