Sentence examples for is forgone from inspiring English sources
verb
To let pass, to leave alone
Interest is forgone by the saver in support of the charity.
It documented the billions of dollars in revenue which is forgone each year due to exemptions within the taxation system.
In Christie's fictional universe, as Joan Acocella has written for this magazine, emotional depth is forgone in favor of elaborate and entertaining puzzles.
"When the administration and faculty and ultimately a lot of the student body spends a great deal of time on witch hunts, I think that a lot of that intellectual rigor is forgone," he said.
This saves the broadcasters around $90m per year (money which is forgone government revenue, by the way) so, of course, Foxtel had to be similarly rewarded for … running a commercial business in a competitive market.
A key question concerns the revenue that is forgone when distributed profits are not subject to the so-called double taxation (i.e., the corporation's income tax and the shareholder's dividend income tax).
A couple in Palo Alto, Calif., is forgoing traditional wedding gifts.
Fox is forgoing its planned preview this spring of "Terra Nova," an ambitious drama involving time travel.
Or the anthropology major who is forgoing grad school to become a dog groomer?
Soon Mr Obama will announce that he is forgoing public-financing for the general election.
But Ms. Pray is forgoing a party to celebrate the prince's arrival.
