#financial prepayment

• Anticipate — To realize, express, think, or execute something before the proper time or before an event occurs; to foresee or intuit the future evolution of facts and act accordingly. In a financial or administrative sense, it refers to paying a sum of money or fulfilling a legal obligation before the contractually established due date.
• Anticipation — The act of anticipating and its result; the intuition, foreseeing, or execution of an event, idea, or action before the proper time or before a due date. In literature (science fiction), the term defines the genre that projects the future evolution of society and technology based on scientific speculations made in the present.