English Dictionary

fore-handed

/fɔːˈhandɪd/

adj

(US) Looking to the future; displaying foresight; prudent. / (obsolete, US) Wealthy. / (not comparable) Executed with a forehand stroke. / (obsolete) Paid or executed in advance.

He is a fore-handed businessman who always plans ahead.

意味（1）

(US) Looking to the future; displaying foresight; prudent.

His unconscious requirement waas that this also must be reasonable; if it were not, he would accept the portions that were reasonable and reject the others as now too childish for his fore-handed American brain.

意味（2）

(obsolete, US) Wealthy.

You mean to say that because I work hard and get a little fore-handed I ought to take a lot of shiftless folks and teach them to be lazy and dependent on me?

意味（3）

(not comparable) Executed with a forehand stroke.

A training device for tactually indicating to a player whether the player's hand has properly gripped the handle of a racket for forehanded play and for backhanded play

意味（4）

(obsolete) Paid or executed in advance.

Concurrence in the conclusion that if the law of hypothec be repealed the landlords will resort to fore-handed rents, as a necessary security

意味（5）

(obsolete) Pertaining to the forequarters of a horse.

To this tribe we may refer a little fore-handed animal, of the island of Ceylon, which M. Buffon calls the Lori ; very remarkable for the singularity of its figure.