| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | an·tic·i·pa·tion |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n-t s  -p  shn |
| NOUN: | 1. The act of anticipating. 2. An expectation. 3. Foreknowledge, intuition, and presentiment. 4. The use or assignment of funds, especially from a trust fund, before they are legitimately available for use. 5. Music Introduction on a weak beat of one note of a new chord before the previous chord is resolved.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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