forfeited
Americanadjective
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given up, especially as a penalty or as a consequence of crime or fault.
The forfeited lands follow a line from Forest Grove to Astoria.
The forfeited shares are deemed to be owned by the company from the date agreed by the directors.
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Sports. (of a game or match) declared a loss as a result of noncompliance with the rules.
The score of a forfeited game shall be recorded as 9-0.
Goals will not be awarded to any of the players on the winning team of a forfeited match.
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Daniel Kokotajlo, who forfeited roughly $2 million in vested equity rather than sign a non-disparagement agreement and stay quiet.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Although I forfeited my membership in the Partnered People club, I became a member of another, equally nonexclusive-but-far-less-touted club, the Happily Divorced Women.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Several organizations declined to sign and their reporters forfeited their press passes but continued to report on the Pentagon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The match later resumed and Senegal won 1-0 but Caf said that the walkout meant they had forfeited the game.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
Indeed, rather like Michael Jackson in our own time, Mozart’s childhood had been forfeited to make way for a career as a freakishly talented boy prodigy to be touted around an adult world.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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