0 present participle of anticipate --
1 to imagine or expect that something will happen: --
The anticipated inflation figure is lower than last month's.
[ + question word ] At this stage we can't really anticipate what will happen.
[ + that ] They anticipate that they will have several applicants for the job
[ + -ing verb ] They anticipate having several applicants for the job.
We had one or two difficulties along the way that we didn't anticipate.
We don't anticipate any trouble.
2 to take action in preparation for something that you think will happen: --
The army anticipated (= took action in preparation for) the explosion by evacuating the town.
Toward the middle of a recession, volatility is still very high and expected returns are at their highest value, anticipating the imminent economic recovery.
A prelude is an introductory piece, anticipating a longer, more substantial work.
Such a descriptive specification is useful because it allows us to talk about the behaviour of an agent without anticipating its implementation.
The account describes what happened, sometimes mentioning past experiences, sometimes anticipating the future-but all in the context of an account of the event.
In particular, around the beginning of recessions, volatility rises considerably, whereas expected return falls, anticipating a decrease in earnings.
This paradigm was intended to determine if participants could inhibit their autonomic reactivity while anticipating a noxious burst of noise that varied in its predictability.
Obviously, this is good news for societies anticipating a substantial increase of the older population.
Practical skills training, developing topic schedules, using stimulus materials, recording, note taking, transcribing, conducting discussions and anticipating analysis.
