LOOK FORWARD TO

Expectation

Verb: expect; look for, look out for, look forward to; hope for; anticipate; have in prospect, have in contemplation; keep in view; contemplate, promise oneself; not wonder; at, not wonder if.

Crosswords: LOOK FORWARD TO

I look forward to seeing them in action. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to. (Donnie Darko; writing credit: Richard Kelly)

I look forward to tossing them. (Twins; writing credit: William Davies; William Osborne)

The enemas take some getting used to, but, in time, you'll learn to look forward to them like an old friend with a cold nose. (The Road to Wellville; writing credit: Alan Parker)

You are an engineer if you look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys. (references; author: unknown)

Something to Look Forward to (1976)

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Books

• How to Look Forward to Money Decisions (reference)

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Music

• Look Forward to Failure Ep (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She could now look forward to giving him that full and perfect confidence which her disposition was most ready to welcome as a duty.

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Health

However, with appropriate medical care, most individuals with the disorder can look forward to normal life expectancy. (references)

In the years ahead, physicians and patients can look forward to new forms of therapy developed through an understanding of the unique traits of CNS tumors. (references)

Thanks to preventive treatments and to prompt and aggressive therapy when infections do occur, the outlook for patients with CGD is good. Although they must guard against serious infections, they can look forward to long periods of good health and long, productive lives. (references)

Business

Since the government proposes to stimulate a population increase to 5.5 million, the Singapore construction industry should look forward to a total of S$200 billion worth of projects over the next 20 to 30 years. (references)

Currently linear accelerators of 6mev are used, and these will need to be updated soon. U.S. suppliers can also look forward to more demand in nuclear diagnostic equipment, scintigraphic equipment and molecular biology diagnostic instruments. (references)

If the stricter laws and regulations are coupled with tougher enforcement, then the U.S. and other foreign investors can look forward to a growing market for years to come. China's appalling environmental protection record may change rapidly due to the fact that pollution has become so bad that government officials can no longer avoid it. According to the 1997 World Bank report Clear Water, Blue Shies, pollution costs China the equivalent of 8% of its GDP annually. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "LOOK FORWARD TO": look forward to smth. ♦ to look forward to. Additional references.

Albanian

shpresoj (dream, expect, hope, plan, trust), pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), parashikoj (adumbrate, anticipate, contemplate, divine, dope, envision, forecast, foresee, foretaste, predict, previse, prognosticate, time, visualize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏توقع (anticipate, anticipation, await, contemplate, expect, expectancy, expectation, foresee, presage, wait), ‏تطلع الى (expectation), ‏تشوق الى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

очаквам с нетърпение (sweat out). (various references)

Chinese 

盼望 (to hope for), 巴望 , 巴不得 (anxious, earnestly wish for). (various references)

Czech

tìšit se na (longhand, look forward), oèekávat (anticipate, await, be expecting, expect, think, visualize). (various references)

Dutch

zich verheugen op. (various references)

Esperanto

antaŭĝoji pri. (various references)

French

expecter, avoir envie, attendre. (various references)

German

sich freuen auf (to look forward to), entgegensehen (await, expect, see smb. coming, to expect). (various references)

Greek 

ανυπομονώ (champ, champ at the bit, grow impatient). (various references)

Hebrew 

ליחל (expect, hope, wait). (various references)

Hungarian

elõre örül valaminek, alig vár valamit, örömmel vár. (various references)

Indonesian

menanti-nanti (wait a long time, wait on and on). (various references)

Italian

non veder l'ora di. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

期す (to expect, to look forward to), 楽しみにする (to look forward to something), 待設ける (to anticipate, to expect, to look for, to look forward to, to wait for), 待ち設ける (to anticipate, to expect, to look for, to look forward to, to wait for), 心待ちにする (to look forward to). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たのしみにする (to look forward to something), きす (garfish, silaginoid, to expect, to look forward to), まちもうける (to anticipate, to expect, to look for, to look forward to, to wait for), �"�"ろまちにする (to look forward to). (various references)

Pig Latin

ooklay orwardfay otay

Romanian

aştepta cu plãcere, aştepta cu nerãbdare sã. (various references)

Russian 

ожидать с нетерпением. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

radovati se (be happy, joy, look forward, rejoice). (various references)

Spanish

soñar (doze, dream, go court, like, romance, want), prometerse (anticipate, expect, promise oneself), pensar (cogitate, contemplate, develop, dream, fodder, Gage, gauge, guess, hope, incline, know, like, look at, ponder, reflect, see about, tender, think, think out, think over, trust), alegrarse de antemano de, alegrarse de antemano. (various references)

Swedish

motse. (various references)

Turkish

sabırsızlanmak (become impatient, kick one's heels, strain at the leash), sabırsızlıkla beklemek, iple çekmek (be on the tiptoe of expectation), can atmak (ache for, ache to, aspire, be dying for, crave, die for, hanker, have an itch to, itch, itch to, jump at, lick one's chops, long, raring to, set one's heart on), beklemek (abide, anticipate, await, bargain for, bide, expect, hang about, hang around, hang on, have smth. in prospect, hold on, hope, look for, mark time, stand by, stay, Tarry, wait, wait for, watch). (various references)

Welsh

edrych ymlaen at. (various references)

spera, sperabam, sperabamus, sperabat, sperabit, sperabo, sperabunt, speramus, sperandorum, sperans, sperant, sperantem, sperantes, sperantibus, sperantium, sperare, sperarent, speras, sperassent, sperastis, sperat, sperate, speratis, speratur, speraverit, speraverunt, speravi, speravimus, speravit, speremus, sperent, speret, spero. (various references)

Misspellings

"LOOK FORWARD TO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: look foreward to. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-5 letters: flatwork, footwork, roadwork, woodlark, workload.