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A forfeit can be one of several things:

Forfeit (baseball)
Forfeit (baseball)

In rare cases, baseball games are forfeit ed, and the score is recorded with the forfeiting team scoring no runs; their opponents are credited with the same number of runs as innings scheduled....
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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
Forfeit (song) a song on Chevelle's breakthrough Cd Wonder What's Next
Wonder What's Next

Wonder What's Next is Chevelle's second album and major label debut, released in 2002 by Epic records. Wonder What's Next sold more than 1 million copies, the most commercially successful album from the band....
A forfeit
Declaration and forfeiture

In the sport of cricket a declaration occurs when a captain declares his team's innings closed and a forfeiture is when a captain chooses to forfeit an innings....
in cricket
Cricket

Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
can occur in one of two ways:

Either side may forfeit one of their innings
Innings

An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring....
, but only by mutual consent of the opposing captains. It is not a common practice and is usually only done to try to get a result in a rain-affected match; at the end of side A's first innings the captains may agree that side B will forfeit their first innings and side A will forfeit their second innings, thus reducing the match to a single innings game.
The umpires also have the power to award a match to side A where side B either concedes defeat or in the opinion of the umpires refuses to play, in which case the game can be deemed to have been forfeited by side B.

Asset forfeiture
Asset forfeiture

Asset forfeiture is a term used to describe the confiscation of assets, by the State, which are either the proceeds of crime or the instrumentalities of crime, and more recently, terrorism....
, in law, is the confiscation by the State of assets which are either the proceeds of crime or the instrumentalities of crime.