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Expect

verb

(past & past part. expected; pres. part. expecting)

Regard something as probable or likely. Synonym: anticipate.

Consider obligatory; request and expect. Synonyms: ask, require. "Aren't we asking too much of these children?" , "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"

Look forward to the probable occurrence of. Synonyms: await, look, wait. "She is looking to a promotion" , "He is waiting to be drafted"

Consider reasonable or due.

Look forward to the birth of a child.

Be pregnant with. Synonyms: bear, carry, gestate, have a bun in the oven. "The are expecting another child in January" , "I am carrying his child"

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... then Papa and I persuaded her, that it would be much less uncivil to leave out all the Misses, than to take one and leave the rest. You know Anne and I are both under seventeen yet, so that nobody will expect ...

— Abbeychurch - or, Self-Control and Self-Conceit • Charlotte M. Yonge

... especial favor—I'm putting into my office a man who had the legal acumen to devise a plan to break the unholy clutch of plunderers who have had this state by the throat for a quarter of a century. I'm simply grabbing you before somebody else gets you. I expect to be governor of this state, and I want my law business looked after by a man who is able to keep up the reputation of the firm. But first of all, my boy, you and I are going back to your home. I think you'll find me a fairly good lawyer in straightening out tangles. I'll know just how ...

— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day

... so tender towards you?" she said, "when you are his child? I expect it is because I know that Paul loves you and that you love him. I ought to hate you. I can't understand why I don't. And then everything is ...

— The Day of Judgment • Joseph Hocking

... hard-working girl, and, thanks to the good Doratei Sisters, she sewed so beautifully that very soon Madama allowed her twenty centimes a day. She had to work from eight till eight; but of course she could not expect more than twenty centimes while ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 • Various

... omen of the reception which he was to expect; but a worse followed, when, upon inquiry for his daughter and her husband, he was told they were weary with travelling all night, and could not see him; and when lastly, upon his insisting in a positive and angry manner ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

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