prévoir — meaning in English
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English meaning
- anticipate verb To expect something and prepare for it in advance.
- envisage verb To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
- forecast verb To predict how something, especially the weather or the economy, will develop.
- foresee verb To know or realize something will happen before it does.
- intend verb To have a plan or purpose in mind to do something.
- plan noun A set of intended actions worked out in advance to achieve a goal.
- preview noun A look at something before it is officially released or completed.
- schedule noun A plan that lists when a set of tasks or events will happen.
Senses
prévoir is used for these senses in English:
- anticipate (transitive) To know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
- envisage To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
- forecast To estimate how something will be in the future.
- foreknow To have knowledge of beforehand.
- foresee (obsolete) To provide.
- intend (ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon
- plan (intransitive) To intend.
- preview (computing, transitive) To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.
anticipate — full definition
- verb To expect something and prepare for it in advance.
- verb To act ahead of someone or something, often to head off a problem before it happens.