ex ante

[eks an-tee]

adjective

1. based on anticipated changes or activity in an economy (ex post ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of ex ante¹

< Latin: literally, from (what might lie) ahead; according to (what lies) ahead

Example Sentences

“The most important thing you can do as an investor is to add guardrails around your decision-making process, such that you evaluate every decision you make with an ex ante outcome in mind — if ‘x’ happens, I will do ‘y,’” Dale said.

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That is to say, a denaturalization can move forward only if the government can establish to the satisfaction of a federal judge that there are ex ante facts that would have clearly made the person directly ineligible for citizenship in the first place.

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That ex ante part is important.

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"A greater ex ante national ownership of the design of fiscal trajectories could be balanced by a stronger ex post enforcement at EU level," he said.

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"There shall be no separate requirement on Plaintiff at this stage, prior to the review of any of the Seized Materials, to lodge ex ante final objections to the accuracy of Defendant's Inventory, its descriptions, or its contents. The Court's Appointment Order did not contemplate that obligation," Cannon wrote.

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