anticipi

Take it early. That is the verb. Anticipi is transitive and it means to do, take, use or enjoy something before the time appointed for it. You can anticipi a payment, a decision, a publication, a pleasure. The Reta Vortaro's own gloss is blunt about it: to do or use or enjoy something before the fixed time.

Which makes it a false friend, and a subtle one. English anticipate started in the same place and drifted. Today it mostly means expect: I anticipate rain, I anticipate problems. Esperanto did not come along for that ride. Mi anticipas problemojn is an anglicism, and a reader who parses it properly gets something like "I am having the problems early", which is not what you meant. The false friends article collects a good many of these; this is one of the ones that fails silently, because the sentence still looks like Esperanto.

Say expect with the right verb. Atendi covers expect as well as wait. Antaŭvidi is to foresee, and is what you want for a forecast or a projection. Antaŭsenti at rank 2243 is the one with a feeling in it: to sense something coming without being able to say why. Note that all three of those are built on antaŭ, a transparent Esperanto preposition, while anticipi is a Latin borrowing that arrived pre-assembled. The ante inside it is the same word, but you cannot get at it from Esperanto.

Where the money sense matters. In commercial and legal Esperanto anticipi keeps its full Latin force: anticipita pago is a payment made ahead of the due date, and anticipe means in advance. That register is where the word earns its place in the list.