adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
for/in the foreseeable future (= as far into the future as you can possibly know )
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The population is expected to keep growing for the foreseeable future.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
reasonably
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For a duty to arise, some damage to the plaintiff must be reasonably foreseeable .
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Under this theory, the courts have held schools liable for student injuries that are reasonably foreseeable .
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Assume that a duty of care is owed by A to C as a rescue was reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances.
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That question calls for consideration of what was reasonably foreseeable as the future consequences of the careless act.
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Would the death be reasonably foreseeable ?
■ NOUN
future
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But the idea of full-blown solar power stations is unrealistic in the foreseeable future .
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Can you live with this lifestyle for the foreseeable future ? 9.
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Arguments about this change continue to rage, and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future .
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To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future .
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And the mad requests of potential customers should keep Microjet pretty busy for the foreseeable future .
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Later that same enemy had been bloodily counter attacked and neutralised as a threat for the foreseeable future .
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The project provides a control and information system that meets the needs of the Barcelona company for the foreseeable future .
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We shall not bridge that gap with particle accelerators in the foreseeable future !
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Due to rising costs and delays in the delivery of equipment, losses are already foreseeable on the new tunnel project.
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Employers must be told in advance when a leave of absence is foreseeable - such as for the birth of a baby.
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There will not be any redundancies in the foreseeable future.
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Your insurance policy should take into account all foreseeable circumstances.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A General Council of all the Churches does not seem to be a realistic possibility in the foreseeable future.
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In Britain for the foreseeable future the ultimate purchaser of 80% or more of health care will continue to be the Treasury.
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In discussing this question, an Illinois court observed that hindsight makes every event foreseeable .
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Some property damage was foreseeable and the fact that it was more extensive than might have been foreseen did not matter.
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They created a duty of care imposed on builders and owed to foreseeable victims of their negligence.
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To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future.