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[ US /ˈfɔɹfətʃɝ/ ]
[ UK /fˈɔːfe‍ɪt‍ʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something
    the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time
  2. something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty
  3. the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

How To Use forfeiture In A Sentence

  • This meant a motor vehicle constituted an "instrumentality" of the offences of driving under the influence of liquor and could thus be forfeited to the state in terms of the Act. However, the Bloemfontein court also held a vehicle driven in these conditions was not liable to forfeiture in every case. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The indictment also seeks $80 million in forfeiture from Moore and Netschi. Bill Singer: ATM Investment Scheme Guilty Plea
  • Initiative B was intended to remove the profit incentive from forfeitures and prevent police from zealously impounding cars or seizing property of innocent third parties in criminal cases.
  • It advocates walking the extra mile, which, far from being capitulation or forfeiture of rights, is unflinching self-assertion and composure amidst adversity or extortion.
  • Failure to meet repayments leads automatically to forfeiture of the lease.
  • That clearly demonstrates to me that there is scope for changing the legislation and looking at civil forfeiture as a way of bringing more assets in from organised criminal gangs.
  • A neutral presentation would expose the difference and show that the delegation of authority does not imply the forfeiture of ultimate control.
  • The forfeiture occurred March 27, 2002, when, in a private act betokening an uneasy conscience, he signed the McCain-Feingold law expanding government regulation of the timing, quantity and content of political speech.
  • Even then, the maximum penalty that can be wrought is the forfeiture of the boat and her cargo (but emphatically not imprisonment of the crew). The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
  • Not only are they guiltless, but they are even unaccused of such crimes, as in the judgment of any, justly work a forfeiture of liberty. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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