ANTICIPATE


Meaning of ANTICIPATE in English

(~s, anticipating, ~d)

1.

If you ~ an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.

At the time we couldn’t have ~d the result of our campaigning...

It is ~d that the equivalent of 192 full-time jobs will be lost...

Officials ~ that rivalry between leaders of the various drug factions could erupt into full scale war.

= expect

VERB: V n, it be V-ed that, V that

2.

If you ~ a question, request, or need, you do what is necessary or required before the question, request, or need occurs.

What Jeff did was to ~ my next question...

VERB: V n

3.

If you ~ something, you do it, think it, or say it before someone else does.

In the 50s, Rauschenberg ~d the conceptual art movement of the 80s.

VERB: V n

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