look ahead
— phrasal verb with look uk/lʊk/us/lʊk/verb
C2 to think about what will happen in the future and plan for these events:
We are trying to look ahead and see what our options are.
More examples
- I'm trying not to look ahead to what will happen when he dies.
- Meteorologists are trying to look ahead to plan.
- We need to look ahead to decide how to expand our business.
- The house is big enough for us now, but we're looking ahead.
- They never seem to look ahead.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Planning, expecting and arranging
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim
- aim at sth
- calculate
- chart
- engineer
- I might have known idiom
- in the pipeline idiom
- intend
- intent
- intention
- promise
- scheme
- scientific
- see sth coming idiom
- set sth up
- strategic
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