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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB already ▪ Through an important earlier development, the providers in the Eastern District had already anticipated the trend. ▪ He was no doubt already anticipating some such development. ▪ Investors had already anticipated ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action. 2 to take up or introduce (something) prematurely. 3 to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
Usage examples of anticipate.
Jews, whose stern fanaticism would be always prepared to second, and even to anticipate, the hostile measures of the Pagan government.
Sira, had conspired with the malcontents to assert and anticipate the rights of primogeniture.
The merit and misfortunes of Ali and his descendants will lead me to anticipate, in this place, the series of the Saracen caliphs, a title which describes the commanders of the faithful as the vicars and successors of the apostle of God.
Omar himself confessed from the pulpit, that if any Mussulman should hereafter presume to anticipate the suffrage of his brethren, both the elector and the elected would be worthy of death.
In this rapid portrait of chivalry I have been urged to anticipate on the story of the crusades, at once an effect and a cause, of this memorable institution.
Their light and perfidious ambition was eager to seize or anticipate the moment of a vacancy, while a law of succession, the guardian both of the prince and people, was gradually defined and confirmed in the hereditary monarchies of Europe.
Their enemy had been trying to play cute again, but this time Bariden had been able to anticipate the major trap.
After a decade or more of confrontation they would anticipate a preliminary air campaign.
For years, the intelligence agencies had been assailed for failing to anticipate threats, from nuclear tests by India and Pakistan to the Al Qaeda attacks on the United States.
For almost a century, the Japanese had been socialized to anticipate and accommodate themselves to drastic change.
They had failed to anticipate the radical fervor with which an entire stratum of privileged intellectuals would attempt to propel the American revolution beyond the boundaries of bourgeois democracy.
Nor did anyone really anticipate how swiftly intellectual discourse would percolate to a national audience through the mass media.
We are for reasons that, after perusing this manuscript, you may be able to guess, going away again this time to Central Asia where, if anywhere upon this earth, wisdom is to be found, and we anticipate that our sojourn there will be a long one.
At present the planet Mars is in conjunction, but with every return to opposition I, for one, anticipate a renewal of their adventure.
It seems to me that it should be possible to define the position of the gun from which the shots are discharged, to keep a sustained watch upon this part of the planet, and to anticipate the arrival of the next attack.