0 something that has already happened or been done and cannot be changed: --
The policy change was presented to us as a fait accompli, without consultation or discussion.
It is a fait accompli; make the best of it.
They are by no means a fait accompli.
Perhaps it should be responsible for such decisions and should not be presented with a fait accompli.
Is this genuine consultation or a fait accompli?
There was an assumption that the outcome was a fait accompli.
Do developing countries have any room to negotiate when they join the agreement, or are they presented with a fait accompli ?
Much is at stake: the euro is now a fait accompli and must succeed.
Few envisaged the later developments, but very soon the changing socio-economic environment put before the politicians a fait accompli: they simply had to handle the new situation.
