| query | If you a_________ a question, request, or need, you do what is necessary or required before the question, request, or need occurs.If you anticipate a question, request, or need, you do what is necessary or required before the question, request, or need occurs. What Jeff did was to anticipate my next question. Do you expect your partner to anticipate your needs? |
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| word | anticipate |
| full-definition | verb If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it. At the time we couldn't have anticipated the result of our campaigning. It is anticipated that the equivalent of 192 full-time jobs will be lost. I hadn't anticipated that Rob's team would advance that far. If you anticipate a question, request, or need, you do what is necessary or required before the question, request, or need occurs. What Jeff did was to anticipate my next question. Do you expect your partner to anticipate your needs? If you anticipate something, you do it, think it, or say it before someone else does. In the 50s, Rauschenberg anticipated the conceptual art movement of the 80s. |
| inflections | anticipatesanticipatinganticipated |
| cefr-level | B2 |
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