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Word: expect (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Verb:

  • obsolete To wait for; to await.
  • To consider obligatory or required.
  • To consider reasonably due.
  • To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).

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