adelantar

/adelanˈtaɾ/ · B1 · verb

to bring forward, advance, to move forward

🏃 a + delante (in front): to put something in front, ahead of time

Delante comes from Latin de + ante, meaning before, as in antecedent. Adelantar means to move something ahead: a meeting moved to an earlier date, a payment made early, or a car passing the one in front of it.

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