forfeit的意思|forfeit的解释-里氏词典

forfeit ['fɒ:fit]

n. 没收物, 罚金, 丧失

vt. 没收, 丧失

a. 丧失了的

[经] 罚金, 被没收

He who murders pays the forfeit of his life.
杀人者偿命。
If man put his country in danger by helping the enemy, his life and possessions were forfeit to the crown.
任何人如帮助敌人危害本国，他的生命财产便被国家没收。
If you don't return the article to the shop within a week, you forfeit your chance of getting your money back.
如果你不把物品归还商店，你就丧失了取回钱的机会。

forfeit

[ noun ]

something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty

<noun.possession>

a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something

<noun.possession>

the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time

the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime

<verb.possession>

you've forfeited your right to name your successor
forfeited property

[ adj ]

surrendered as a penalty

<adj.all>

Forfeit \For"feit\, n. [OE. forfet crime, penalty, F. forfait
crime (LL. forefactum, forifactum), prop. p. p. of forfaire
to forfeit, transgress, fr. LL. forifacere, prop., to act
beyond; L. foris out of doors, abroad, beyond + facere to do.
See {Foreign}, and {Fact}.]
1. Injury; wrong; mischief. [Obs. & R.]

To seek arms upon people and country that never did
us any forfeit. --Ld. Berners.

2. A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from
one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is
lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime,
offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a
fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the
forfeit of his life.

Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal
Remit thy other forfeits. --Shak.

3. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; --
whence the game of forfeits.

Country dances and forfeits shortened the rest of
the day. --Goldsmith.

Forfeit \For"feit\, v. i.
1. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
[Obs.]

2. To fail to keep an obligation. [Obs.]

I will have the heart of him if he forfeit. --Shak.

Forfeit \For"feit\, p. p. or a.
In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.
--Shak.

Once more I will renew
His laps[`e]d powers, though forfeite. --Milton.

Forfeit \For"feit\, a. [F. forfait, p. p. of forfaire. See
{Forfeit}, n.]
Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal
seizure.

Thy wealth being forfeit to the state. --Shak.

To tread the forfeit paradise. --Emerson.

Forfeit \For"feit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Forfeited}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Forfeiting}.] [OE. forfeten. See {Forfeit}, n.]
To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense,
or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be
deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some
neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to
forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before
the one acquiring what is forfeited.

[They] had forfeited their property by their crimes.
--Burke.

Undone and forfeited to cares forever! --Shak.

Kalish said under his 1987 plea bargain with federal prosecutors in Florida, he agreed to forfeit $2.8 million in assets but the government can seize any other assets it can find.
Ever cautious about network failures, Morgan had each carrier guarantee that it would maintain a certain level of service or forfeit a chunk of Morgan's monthly tab.
The U.S. government had set a Friday deadline for the package-delivery concern to start the service or forfeit the route.
Hermon said a condition imposed by Gilman was that Heart of Art forfeit control of the tour.
"The safety of society does not become forfeit to the accident of the non-compliance with statutory time limits where the government is ready and able" to show release on bail is not feasible, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court.
Consumers who do not file such a claim forfeit all rights to participate in Chrysler's settlement, the attorney general said.
The Bahamian government has its own ideas about the property of Carlos Lehder Rivas, whose conviction on U.S. cocaine-smuggling charges led to a jury ruling that the Colombian should forfeit his Bahamas assets to the United States.
His purported financial difficulties appear to stem in part from the government's efforts to require Mr. Drogoul to forfeit his suburban Atlanta residence and the contents of his bank account.
Often when market prices are low, a farmer will not repay the loan and forfeit the commodity to the government.
Under the regulations, lawyers who fail to comply may have to forfeit their legal fees from clients attracted by the advertisments.
If the banks are to forfeit some of their existing rights as senior creditors, they will no doubt extract a price.
The bill by Rep. Nick Joe Rahall, D-W.Va., would require the holders to spend $5,000 a year on each claim in a "diligent effort" to get them in full production between 2015 and 2018 or forfeit them.
A state official said that volunteers would forfeit their Mexican citizenship.
Therefore, the departure from police work of police-corps recruits after four years would forfeit their best potential years of police service.
U.S. District Judge Alan N. Bloch ordered Woods to forfeit $47,727 _ the amount in kickbacks he was convicted of receiving _ under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
He reiterated his statement that if he was elected and failed to secure financing for his bid, he would resign from the board and forfeit $100 million in earnest money he has pledged as a guarantee that he will produce the financing.
He also was ordered to forfeit $60 million in drug proceeds.
It included a long conditional clause stating that if the museum declared that anyone else flew before the Wrights, it would forfeit the Flyer.
Parker calculated that First City should forfeit $2.7 million in profits on the 890,000 shares it purchased during the period when its 5 percent stake in Ashland should have been public knowledge.
Under RICO, defendants are subject to triple damages and attorney fees and, in criminal complaints, may be ordered to forfeit proceeds from unlawful activity.
Col. Howard C. Eggers, the military judge who presided at the court-martial, also gave Hall a dishonorable discharge and ordered him to forfeit all future pay and allowances.
If AT&T moves out of the building, it will forfeit $16 million of the $26 million in local tax abatements it received from the city in 1987 to maintain at least 1,000 employees at the site, according to AT&T spokesman Walter Murphy.
The Belzberg family's financial company violated federal securities law in its unsuccessful bid to take control of Ashland Oil Co. and must forfeit $2.7 million in stock profits, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Industrivaerden said the average price of the four million Fermenta Class A shares that Mr. el-Sayed will forfeit was $12.90 each, while the 2,980,000 Class B shares Industrivaerden will receive were valued at $10.04 each.
Pretelt promised to cooperate fully, and agreed to forfeit $108,000, the amount he got for his part in the transactions, Tragos said.
Wheat farmers should be provided with some kind of incentive to sell grain on the open market rather than have to forfeit it to the government when price support loans come due, the National Association of Wheat Growers said Wednesday.
Eastern would have to forfeit the money if the appeals court later found the layoffs to be illegal under the Railway Labor Act, as Eastern's unions have argued and as the lower court ruled.
Winters, who did not testify, agreed to forfeit to the government $650,000 he obtained by racketeering.
A NASA statement in February 1987 said that Morton Thiokol would forfeit $10 million in profit and would receive no profit from $409 million worth of redesign work.
By canceling the contract, Ontario Hydro will forfeit about C$160 million in advance payments made to Denison to expand the mine in the late 1970s, the utility said.

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