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Перевод: foregone

[прилагательное]
известный заранее; принятый заранее

Тезаурус:

1. Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day, or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches, but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike, and there was no escaping.
2. Llanelli's second try, a disarmingly easy one by Steve Bowling on the blind side of a scrum-five, was of more modest proportions and if Jeff Bird had kicked more than one of the six chances he had the conclusion would by half-time have been foregone.
3. The costs of children may be divided into direct costs - the outlay on the baby and mother around the time of birth, and indirect costs - the amounts foregone by mothers who take time out of paid employment, and who may return to work part-time and at lower rates of pay.
4. "Even if I were able to discover the whereabouts of these establishments - and that is by no means a foregone conclusion - the moment I produced my warrant-card, everyone would close up like a clam."
5. When this happens, the records get harder to listen to, the music gets to be like a reproach, stirring up the taunting ghosts of prematurely foregone dreams.
6. Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone, a temptation denied, yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I didn't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative.
7. Also, it is by no means a foregone conclusion that the "expert" way is either "correct" or "more appropriate," nor that the conclusions need always be reached by the same processes of thought and action.
8. The last three elections were all foregone conclusions, and the last-minute swings against the party that was clearly going to win in two of them - against the Tories in 1979 and 1983 - probably only reflected some floating voters' desire not to see any party have too large a majority.
9. A shoot-out was inevitable, the result foregone.
10. The outcome seemed a foregone conclusion.
11. It was a foregone conclusion that Haslam would for the second time in his career find himself "pitch-forked" into a retrenchment programme.
12. And when he makes his fortune" (which was a foregone conclusion) "then he will send me much more.
13. It was a foregone conclusion that the jury, carefully selected beforehand, would return their immediate and unanimous verdict of "Guilty".