Anticipate

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Meaning of Anticipate

Synonyms of Anticipate

(Expect), verb

  • antevertere
  • assume
  • be ready for
  • calculate on
  • consider in advance
  • contemplate
  • count on
  • forearm
  • get the start on
  • guard against
  • have in prospect
  • hold in view
  • intuit
  • make preparations
  • plan on
  • preconceive
  • predispose
  • prepare for
  • suppose
  • surmise
  • wait for Associated Concepts: anticipated profits
  • anticipating defenses
  • anticipation notes
  • anticipatory breach
  • anticipatory repudiation
  • anticipatory warrant
  • duty to anticipate in negligence

(Prognosticate), verb

  • announce in advance
  • augur
  • auspicate
  • betoken
  • conjecture
  • divine
  • forebode
  • forecast
  • foreknow
  • foreshow
  • forespeak
  • harbinger
  • have a presentiment
  • herald
  • look forward to
  • omen
  • portend
  • praevertere
  • preannounce
  • precognize
  • predetermine
  • predict
  • premonish
  • presage
  • prophesy
  • vaticinate

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What does Anticipate mean in American Law?

The definition of Anticipate in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

Several meanings:

(a) To look forward to or expect, e.g., “He anticipated a large profit.”

(b) Carrying out an action before required or expected, e.g., “He anticipated the note payment by a full year.”

(c) Forestalling, or countering, e.g., “He anticipated Napoleon’s occupation of the river bank by moving his own troops there first.” See also anticipation and terms so beginning, below.

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