Usually means: Expected to happen or occur.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. anticipated: Merriam-Webster
  2. anticipated: Collins English Dictionary
  3. anticipated: Vocabulary.com
  4. Anticipated, anticipated: Wordnik
  5. anticipated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. anticipated: Wiktionary
  7. Anticipated, anticipated: Dictionary.com
  8. anticipated: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Anticipated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. anticipated: Rhymezone
  11. Anticipated: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. anticipated: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. anticipated: FreeDictionary.org
  14. anticipated: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. anticipated: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. anticipated: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. anticipated: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. anticipated: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anticipated: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  expected to arrive; scheduled

Similar:
expected, hoped-for, due, await, looked-for, predicted, foreseen, planned, forecasted, imagined, more...

Opposite:
unexpected, unforeseen, surprising, unanticipated, sudden

Types:
excited, anxious, curious, optimistic, hopeful, apprehensive, expectant, enthusiastic, more...

Phrases:
anticipated holding period, highly anticipated, much anticipated, eagerly anticipated, positively anticipated, more...

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     emerald,     sapphire,     ruby, more...



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Similar:
expected, hoped-for, due, await, looked-for, predicted, foreseen, planned, forecasted, imagined, more...

Opposite:
unexpected, unforeseen, surprising, unanticipated, sudden

Types:
excited, anxious, curious, optimistic, hopeful, apprehensive, expectant, enthusiastic, more...

Phrases:
anticipated holding period, highly anticipated, much anticipated, eagerly anticipated, positively anticipated, long anticipated, opposite of anticipated, an anticipated outcome, unable to be anticipated, more...

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     emerald,     sapphire,     ruby, more...



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