(~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