What's the difference between forgoing and forgone?
Forgoing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forgo
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed, there is only a limited understanding of the factors influencing physicians' decisions to forgo or maintain life-sustaining treatments when caring for dying patients.
(2) NHS officials told the Guardian that any individual local council that chose not to engage with NHS partners would forgo the opportunity to join up social care and health services more effectively, but that would be their choice.
(3) The wheels are falling off because the Chinese economy is slowing and commodity prices are falling and because the parliamentary gridlock means governments have been unable to do anything about it.” Richardson joined a growing push for the government to consider savings from the revenue the government forgoes due to the generous treatment of superannuation savings – $30bn in 2014-15 and forecast to rise to close to $50bn in 2017-18.
(4) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
(5) Many patients, especially those who are elderly and who have chronic medical illnesses, choose to forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in case of cardiac arrest.
(6) If the patient is incapable of expressing a preference, the decision to forgo resuscitation may be made by the patient's family or other surrogate decision maker.
(7) Increasing costs would cause “unnecessary harm” and lower high standards of care, as many patients would choose to forgo important tests, Harrison said.
(8) (In the end, Serco paid back £68.5m for the tagging debacle, and agreed to forgo any future profits on its prisoner escort contract.
(9) He has already dispatched 2,500 head office staff to work in its stores for one day a fortnight in the runup to Christmas, and revealed that, when possible, he is forgoing his chauffeur and taking public transport.
(10) Each year Thiel pays a small group of teenagers to forgo or quit university and start their own business.
(11) The BBC has announced that most managers will not receive a bonus this year, and ITV executives agreed to forgo part of their performance-related payments last week.
(12) Only one has been issued so far this century – by Pope Benedict to give Anglicans a way of joining the Catholic church without having to forgo their liturgy and so on.
(13) "We could lose a generation of potential, as more young Americans are forced to forgo college dreams or the chance to train for the jobs of the future," Obama said in the five-minute address.
(14) In the health care setting, team members forgo their personal needs to focus on the needs of patients.
(15) "We listened to our customers in December and so decided to forgo certain deductions which would make us liable to pay £10m in corporation tax this year and a further £10m in 2014.
(16) They forgo electricity or running water in favour of old-fashioned pleasures: you drift off in front of a log fire and awake to birdsong.
(17) Given the possibility that this surveillance could perhaps prevent deaths in the form of terrorist attacks, most Americans are willing to forgo some abstract notion of privacy in favor of the more concrete benefits of security.
(18) Given the unique and challenging Arctic environment and industry’s declining interest in the area, forgoing lease sales in the Arctic is the right path forward.” The move, announced as part of the federal government’s land and ocean leasing program that will run from 2017 to 2022, has been cheered by environmentalists who called for the Arctic to be put off limits for drilling to help slow climate change and avoid a catastrophic oil spill.
(19) The patient information that was collected included age and sex, diagnoses, mental status, location in the hospital length of hospital stay, method of payment, the timing of the first decision to forgo treatment, and the range and sequence of interventions forgone.
(20) As we have seen all too often in international emergency response operations, the stakes are too high to forgo systems of accountability.
Forgone
Definition:
(p. p.) of Forgo
Example Sentences:
(1) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(2) Based on the results of a large Australian study of a workplace smoking ban, an estimated 654.88 million cigarettes with a retail value of $A6,549 thousand would be forgone annually in Australia alone if 50 percent of white-collar worksites were to ban smoking.
(3) But this is unlikely to come until much later in the primary race and Sanders’s success in securing the backing of an individual union will be seen by some supporters as a demonstration that the labor movement’s backing for Clinton is not a forgone conclusion.
(4) In an atmosphere where people often assume the worst intentions in others, many potentially fruitful relationships are inevitably forgone, and possible business transactions never happen because no one wants to risk being shortchanged.
(5) We need reassurance that it can deliver the benefits intended and that these benefits are greater than those of other transport schemes – whether in the department's project pipeline or not – which may be forgone."
(6) In 2008, Duncan's base salary went up but, having forgone his bonus and with no LTIP due, his total pay dropped to £670,000.
(7) Nor would the skilled tactician have forgone the opportunity to reiterate the now-familiar message that the economy is moving from "rescue to recovery".
(8) Indeed, there is evidence that some families have forgone the court application (and therefore the treatment) because of its prohibitive cost.
(9) The patient information that was collected included age and sex, diagnoses, mental status, location in the hospital length of hospital stay, method of payment, the timing of the first decision to forgo treatment, and the range and sequence of interventions forgone.
(10) Benefits include the direct and indirect (forgone earnings) cost-savings from preventable injuries and fatalities.
(11) Most of the change reflects the government’s decision progressively to stop compensating the BBC for the licence fee revenue forgone by requiring it to provide free TV licences for those aged 75 and over.
(12) This appears to indicate that around 3.5m shares – each worth more than £15 – will be released to him, along with shares to cover forgone dividends which could push the bonus up to £60m.
(13) His comments presented China’s control over the area as a forgone conclusion, and indeed it would be difficult for the US to change the facts on the ground without a military confrontation.
(14) In Congress, even when the party firmly controlled the legislature, Democrats continued to approach the Hyde amendment as a forgone conclusion.
(15) But it is not a forgone conclusion that this will win Labour extra MPs on 8 June.
(16) That is, from the consumers' perspective, for every $1.00 relinquished in taxes, supplemental security income (SSI), and forgone workshop earnings, $1.97 was received in increased income; the net benefit per year was $3,894 consumer.
(17) The four-day blitz on abortion clinics meant, said the CQC, that 580 inspections on other parts of the health service had to be "forgone".
(18) Those patients in whom treatment was forgone were more likely to have an underlying malignancy or impaired mental status and longer hospital stays.
(19) It is also testament to his character that he has forgone any kind of a financial settlement, something which is very unusual in football.
(20) Holidays, meals out, school trips are forgone as ordinary families lose a quarter of the benefits that used to cushion them.