ANTICIPATION


Meaning of ANTICIPATION in English

1.

Anticipation is a feeling of excitement about something pleasant or exciting that you know is going to happen.

There’s been an atmosphere of ~ around here for a few days now...

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2.

If something is done in ~ of an event, it is done because people believe that event is going to happen.

Troops in the Philippines have been put on full alert in ~ of trouble during a planned general strike.

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