fait accompli
See also: Fait accompli
English
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Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French fait accompli.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fait accompli (plural faits accomplis)
- Something which has already happened, before those affected had the chance to raise objections or queries; especially, such a thing that cannot be undone.
- Coordinate term: end run
- Thanks to a bureaucratic fait accompli, the demolition was already approved and has already started.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, “Mr. Slope’s Parting Interview with the Signora”, in Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC, page 272:
- Mr. Quiverful's appointment to the hospital was, however, a fait accompli, and Mr. Harding's acquiescence in that appointment was not less so.
- 1913, Saki, When William Came, Chapter VII:
- “In quarters where the fait accompli is an object of solicitude,” said Yeovil.
- 2003, Matthew Restall, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 65:
- The phrase “Spanish Conquest” and all it implies has come down through history because the Spaniards were so concerned to depict their endeavors as conquests and pacifications, as contracts fulfilled, as providential intention, as faits accomplis.
- 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 10, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
- [Hal] Varian awards surveillance capitalists the privilege of the experimenter's role, and this is presented as another casual fait accompli.
- An action or establishment that cannot be undone.
- Near-synonyms: done deal, water under the bridge
- The introduction of white clover to the Americas is a fait accompli.
Related terms
[edit]- accomplished (as in 'accomplished fact')
Translations
[edit]an accomplished fact
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See also
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /fɛ.t‿a.kɔ̃.pli/
Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)): (file)
Noun
[edit]fait accompli m (plural faits accomplis)
- fait accompli; done deal
- placer/mettre quelqu’un devant le fait accompli ― to present somebody with a fait accompli
Descendants
[edit]- → English: fait accompli
- → Indonesian: fait accompli
- → Polish: fakt dokonany (calque)
- → Portuguese: fait accompli
- → Spanish: hecho consumado (calque)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French fait accompli.
Noun
[edit]fait accompli
Further reading
[edit]- “fait accompli”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French fait accompli.
Noun
[edit]fait accompli m (plural faits accomplis)
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