Foresight meaning in English
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Definition
foresight: predictive skills, ability to predict probable future events
Examples
- "I understand that it is always difficult when employees leave the Delavigne family, however a bit of foresight would have been helpful in avoiding this situation, which, from a business perspective, makes no sense whatsoever."
Exercise 1
Fill in the blanks below with terms used in this letter. Use the definitions to help you.
This term means to "save" or "protect" or "economize" (in this context). "Our decision to replace Bob with a robot the company thousands of dollars in monthly salary."
This term describes the ability to "look ahead" to the future, or "anticipation". "Bruno demonstrated excellent by selling his stocks before the market crashed."
This term means to "evade", "circumvent" or "stay away from". "It is best to problems with the police."
This term means to "experience", "endure" or "sustain". "All managers must mandatory sensitivity training once a year."
This term means to "save" or "protect" or "economize" (in this context). "Our decision to replace Bob with a robot the company thousands of dollars in monthly salary."
This term describes the ability to "look ahead" to the future, or "anticipation". "Bruno demonstrated excellent by selling his stocks before the market crashed."
This term means to "evade", "circumvent" or "stay away from". "It is best to problems with the police."
This term means to "experience", "endure" or "sustain". "All managers must mandatory sensitivity training once a year."
Fill in the blanks below with terms used in this letter. Use the definitions to help you.
This term means to "save" or "protect" or "economize" (in this context). "Our decision to replace Bob with a robot spared 1 the company thousands of dollars in monthly salary."
This term describes the ability to "look ahead" to the future, or "anticipation". "Bruno demonstrated excellent foresight 2 by selling his stocks before the market crashed."
This term means to "evade", "circumvent" or "stay away from". "It is best to avoid 3 problems with the police."
This term means to "experience", "endure" or "sustain". "All managers must undergo 4 mandatory sensitivity training once a year."
This term means to "save" or "protect" or "economize" (in this context). "Our decision to replace Bob with a robot spared 1 the company thousands of dollars in monthly salary."
This term describes the ability to "look ahead" to the future, or "anticipation". "Bruno demonstrated excellent foresight 2 by selling his stocks before the market crashed."
This term means to "evade", "circumvent" or "stay away from". "It is best to avoid 3 problems with the police."
This term means to "experience", "endure" or "sustain". "All managers must undergo 4 mandatory sensitivity training once a year."
1 spared: The term "spare" has several meanings, however in this context it describes "saving" or "economizing". Luna writes that by accepting Karen Hughes' resignation, Hannah would have "spared" or "saved" the company a big expense. To "spare the expense" and "to spare no expense" are common English idioms.
2 foresight: "Foresight" describes "anticipation", "prevision" or "looking forward". Luna writes that with a bit of "foresight" or "anticipation", Hannah could have made a smarter decision.
3 avoid: "To avoid (playing sports)" is to refrain from, or stay away from playing sports. In this letter, Luna writes that Hannah could have "avoided" or "refrained" from firing Karen if she had used her head!
4 undergo: The verb "to undergo" expresses a passive sense of receiving an action (rather than the active sense of a verb like "to undertake"), and is synonymous with "receive" or "go through" in this context. Luna writes that Hannah must "undergo" or "receive" HR training.
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