PHRASALVERBS
foist sb/sth on / upon sb to force sb to accept sb/sth that they do not want:
The title for her novel was foisted on her by the publishers. * When I was young my parents often foisted me upon a reluctant aunt for the weekend.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for foist is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is foist a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, foist is tagged as verb.
Does foist appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — foist appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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