Usually means: Anticipating future events or needs.
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  1. Lookahead, lookahead: Wordnik
  2. lookahead: Wiktionary
  3. Lookahead (parsing), Lookahead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. lookahead: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (lookahead)

noun:  (computing, software compilation) The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.
noun:  (regular expressions) The analysis of the subsequent characters before the regular expression is matched.

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