Forfeiting
['fɔr,fɪt]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forfeit
Checker: Osbert
Examples
- In Norfolk and Norwich, no master weaver can have more than two apprentices, under pain of forfeiting five pounds a-month to the king. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Aren't we exchanging the substance for the shadow, aren't we forfeiting life for this dead quality of knowledge? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Osbert