in anticipation of

idiom

: expecting that (something will happen or that someone will arrive)

They hired extra police officers in anticipation of a big crowd at the concert.

Examples of in anticipation of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With the chances of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut for the central bank's final meeting of 2025 growing and the reality that mortgage lenders often reduce interest rates in anticipation of a reduction, mortgage purchase and refinance rates may already be low enough to justify action. —Matt Richardson, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025

In previous years, every hyperscaler—think Google Cloud but also Amazon and Microsoft Azure—rushed to increase compute in anticipation of an influx of AI users. —Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025

The first sight and smell of food increases your body’s production of saliva and stomach acid in anticipation of the work ahead. —Bryn Beeder, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2025

Chalamet trained in ping-pong for years in anticipation of the role. —Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for in anticipation of

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove
• hereinabove