forehanded
Americanadjective
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capable of dealing or coping with unexpected problems.
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providing for the future; prudent; thrifty.
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in good financial circumstances; well-to-do.
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Example Sentences
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Forms had been delivered, days before, to the big Presidential mail desk; but Harry Hopkins and other forehanded White House residents got there first.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'm just trying to be forehanded," Henry Morgenthau explained, as he made an announcement that wakened memories of 1917: the appointment of the first dollar-a-year-men of World War II.
From Time Magazine Archive
The forehanded British toy trade offered numerous war toys, in sharp contrast to shortage in Germany, some remarkably expensive.
From Time Magazine Archive
This week the Army went to work on an operation which the forehanded Lutes and his staff began plotting in August 1943.
From Time Magazine Archive
This year, as forehanded as ever, he’d been wavering between the imported perfumes on sale at Norris Drugs and a pair of riding boots.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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