foredeal

Meanings

Noun

• An advantage; benefit; profit.
• The first place; lead; precedence; preference.
• Progress; advancement.

Verb

• To store; lay past; keep in reserve; hoard.

Related

Opposite words

• afterdeal (also afterdele)

Origin

• From earlier fordele, from Middle English foredel, foredele. Equivalent to fore- + deal. Compare Saterland Frisian Foardeel ("advantage, gain, benefit, profit"), Dutch voordeel, Low German fortel, German Vorteil ("advantage"), Danish fordel, Swedish fördel. More at fore-, deal.