anticipar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- advance verb To move forward, or to help something make progress.
- anticipate verb To expect something and prepare for it in advance.
- hasten verb To move or act quickly, or to make something happen sooner.
Senses
anticipar is used for these senses in English:
- advance To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten. [form 15th c.]
- anticipate (transitive) To know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
- beat to the punch (idiomatic, transitive) To carry out an action before another person is able to do so.
- hasten (transitive) To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
advance — full definition
- verb To move forward, or to help something make progress.
- verb To give money before it is normally due.
- noun Forward movement or progress, or money paid before it is due.
- adj Happening or done ahead of time.
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.