anticipating
- 1Present participle and gerund of anticipate.
Investors are anticipating a rise in interest rates next quarter.
Anticipating the crowd, the organizers added extra seating to the hall.
Note
One -ing form carries every meaning of the verb, from forestalling a rival to simply expecting, or eagerly awaiting, what comes next. Because each of those meanings is transitive, the form takes its object directly: anticipating trouble, anticipating a reply, never anticipating for. As a gerund it can head a noun phrase of its own (anticipating problems is half of planning). After be, it builds the progressive.
anticipating is a form of anticipate
anticipate, verb: To know or expect that something will happen before it actually occurs. Full entry
- Forms
- anticipateanticipates he/she/itanticipating -ing formanticipated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- anticipate → anticipating: drop the e, add -ing
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