in advance
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1.8
- idiom
:
con antelación
- It is advisable to book your tickets in advance to get a better price.
- know in advance
- well in advance
- plan in advance
So they should have rolled well in advance of of what's going on.
- So they should have rolled well in advance of of what's going on.
- So think about this in advance and learn from my mistakes.
- If you know it's going to work in advance, it is not an experiment.
- That means you have to think about them in advance, OK.
- So apologies in advance for those whom I don't get.
- So they should know in advance that this test exists.
- And I wrote notes on my iPad on the plane in advance of the interview.
- I'd like to thank him and thank his colleagues in advance of their presentation.
- I didn't plan this far in advance so we'll cut to the next scene.
- Instead, you're going to order all your crap well in advance and you're going to store it.
- We defined good enough in advance to mean it's good enough.
Examples
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The signed statements were collected one week in advance of the course evaluation session.
Academic text (1991) -
Yes, I agree, that is a lot of money to put down in advance.
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I should read these in advance of the show, he says.
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That means you have to think about them in advance, OK.
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If I may, how far in advance of the opening were you?
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This is why we need to talk about these things in advance before they happen.
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So think about this in advance and learn from my mistakes.
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Please note that I must have the information two months in advance of the publication of the Journal.
Academic text (1999) -
Selecting dogs carefully, as described, and preparing children in advance will prevent most problems.
Academic text (2013) -
Create book lists that support the curriculum and deliver them to the classroom in advance of the lesson.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.0
Before a certain time in order to be ready
100
2.7
Earlier than a planned time or event
76
2.3
Earlier than planned or expected
Antonyms
How Early
278
1.8
101
2.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'before a particular time' is directly and compositionally derived from 'in' (within/at) combined with 'advance' (ahead/beforehand), so the phrase transparently means 'ahead of time'. This prepositional-adjective combination follows a regular English pattern and has clear parallels in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should understand it.
Etymology
In advance comes from the image of doing something ahead of time, like buying a ticket before a concert so you are ready. So, it means 'before' or 'ahead of time'.