0 present participle of forewarn
1 to tell someone that something unpleasant is going to happen:
[ + (that) ] The employees had been forewarned (that) the end-of-year financial results would be poor.
It consisted of a 9-point rating scale ranging from 0 (less than 24 hr of forewarning) to 8 (more than 3 years of forewarning).
Impact of forewarning on adjustment to widowhood and divorce.
It is prudent practice to begin a review of this type by forewarning readers of the plurality and complexity of the field in question.
One forewarning should be made.
Prolonged forewarning was associated with higher levels of anxiety during the bereavement period, which the authors hypothesized might have been partly secondary to the continuing effects of caregiver stress.
This also can give useful feedback to the user, or in cases where speed of response is of the essence, useful forewarnings to back end systems.
Otherwise, the bank would have little option but to close the account, thus forewarning the client that he was under suspicion.
It is my view that if a ceasefire comes it will come with very little, if any, forewarning.
