FORESEEABLE


Meaning of FORESEEABLE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

for/in the foreseeable future (= as far into the future as you can possibly know )

The population is expected to keep growing for the foreseeable future.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

reasonably

For a duty to arise, some damage to the plaintiff must be reasonably foreseeable .

Under this theory, the courts have held schools liable for student injuries that are reasonably foreseeable .

Assume that a duty of care is owed by A to C as a rescue was reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances.

That question calls for consideration of what was reasonably foreseeable as the future consequences of the careless act.

Would the death be reasonably foreseeable ?

■ NOUN

future

But the idea of full-blown solar power stations is unrealistic in the foreseeable future .

Can you live with this lifestyle for the foreseeable future ? 9.

Arguments about this change continue to rage, and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future .

To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future .

And the mad requests of potential customers should keep Microjet pretty busy for the foreseeable future .

Later that same enemy had been bloodily counter attacked and neutralised as a threat for the foreseeable future .

The project provides a control and information system that meets the needs of the Barcelona company for the foreseeable future .

We shall not bridge that gap with particle accelerators in the foreseeable future !

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Due to rising costs and delays in the delivery of equipment, losses are already foreseeable on the new tunnel project.

Employers must be told in advance when a leave of absence is foreseeable - such as for the birth of a baby.

There will not be any redundancies in the foreseeable future.

Your insurance policy should take into account all foreseeable circumstances.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A General Council of all the Churches does not seem to be a realistic possibility in the foreseeable future.

In Britain for the foreseeable future the ultimate purchaser of 80% or more of health care will continue to be the Treasury.

In discussing this question, an Illinois court observed that hindsight makes every event foreseeable .

Some property damage was foreseeable and the fact that it was more extensive than might have been foreseen did not matter.

They created a duty of care imposed on builders and owed to foreseeable victims of their negligence.

To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future.

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