adelantar
bring forward.
Although the age for receiving old-age pension is 65 years, an individual can decide to bring it forward to a maximum of 5 years.
adelantar el comienzo de Algo
jump-start [jumpstart]
Jump-start your learning experience by participating in 1 or 2 half-day seminars that will help you come up to speed on the new vocabularies, processes and architectures underlying effective content management.
adelantar por el lado incorrecto [En el caso de los países donde se conduce por la izquierda, adelantar por la izquierda y en el resto de los países adelantar por la derecha]
undertake
Only undertake the vehicle in front if it is signalling to turn right, and there is room to do so .
adelantarse
out-think [outthink]
Today's online information industry is playing a game of catch-up, and must out-think current market leaders in order to find profitable new markets.
adelantarse a
outguess
second-guess [secondguess]
forestall
Four years of attempting to catalog everything in a depository collection taught me that it was easier to do all the original cataloging than to try to outguess the rules used previously.
This does not imply that the abstractor becomes a publication referee, trying to second-guess decisions already made by editors.
Attempting to forestall problems before they were created was essential to the planning.
adelantarse a Alguien
steal + a march on
The book 'To steal a march on God' explores how heroic acts have complex moral, ethical, and philosophical implications that can still affect people a generation later.
adelantarse a la competencia
get in + ahead of the field
The best that a British author or publisher could do was to authorize an American publisher to bring the book out in America, giving him an advance copy of the text so that he could get in ahead of the field.
adelantarse a los acontecimientos
ahead of the curve
jump + the gun
The article 'Staying ahead of the curve' presents listings of guidebooks and other travel tools for the coming tourist season.
Because of EU tardiness, some countries, namely France, Holland and the UK, have jumped the gun in introducing aid for the pig sector in contravention of EU regulations.
adelantarse a + Posesivo + época
be in advance of + Posesivo + time
be before + Posesivo + time
be years ahead of + Posesivo + time
However since they were so much in advance of their time they didn't sell well and are gathering dust somewhere.
He was before his time in teaching them to think for themselves rather than cram facts in order to pass exams.
Dewey was years ahead of his time in making some notational provision for this.
adelantarse a + Posesivo + tiempo
be years ahead of + Posesivo + time
be before + Posesivo + time
be in advance of + Posesivo + time
Dewey was years ahead of his time in making some notational provision for this.
He was before his time in teaching them to think for themselves rather than cram facts in order to pass exams.
However since they were so much in advance of their time they didn't sell well and are gathering dust somewhere.
adelantarse pronto en el marcador
take + an early lead
The Democrats took an early lead on the Internet, but now the Republicans are closing the gap.
en la primavera los relojes se adelantan y en el otoño se atrasan
spring forward and fall backwards
Many people may be familiar with hearing 'spring forward and fall backwards,' so that in the Spring, clocks move forward one hour and in the Fall, clocks move back one hour.
