Definition of expect in English:

expect

verb ɪkˈspɛktɛkˈspɛktɪkˈspɛkt

[with object]

1Regard (something) as likely to happen.
it's as well to expect the worst
with object and infinitive the hearing is expected to last a week
with clause one might expect that Hollywood would adjust its approach
Example sentencesExamples
- The best place to look for a new job is the financial industry with 63 per cent of firms expecting an increase in IT staff.
- Analysts now expect 2001 sales to jump at least 70 %, to $736 million.
- The death toll was widely expected to rise.
- The decision, widely expected by economists, had little impact on the financial markets.
- His optimism is based on record profits at banks and oil firms but he also expects the recovery in the stock markets to increase receipts, despite concerns over the US economy.
- The firm expects a reduction of 10,000 this year, with about 4,000 of these being voluntary reductions.
- Farmers are now expecting prices to lift by an equivalent amount.
- World demand for energy is expected be about two thirds above current levels by 2030.
- The firm expects total investment in these three countries this year to be around €500 million, or half the total mainland Europe spend.
- A further 19 per cent growth is expected by the end of this year.
- For 2003, chip sales are expected to rise eight per cent to £7.9 billion.
- At the same time, budget spending is expected to increase toward the end of the year.
- Nearly half of all companies anticipated a drop in staffing levels, with just three, including two taxi firms, expecting an increase.
- However, revenues are expected to grow at over 100 per cent per annum for the next three years.
- Meanwhile, the chances of a white Christmas in York looked less likely as showers were expected to stay on the west side of the country.
- Traffic jams were expected because farmers were taking livestock with them.
- The red-hot temperatures are expected to send demand for water soaring.
- The firm expects interest rates to remain unchanged at least in the first half.
- The firm expects this upward trend to continue as more companies increase space and headcount later this year to cope with expansion plans.
- The company is expected to announce its next move in the next few days.
Synonyms
anticipate, await, look for, hope for, watch for, look forward to, look ahead to, have in prospect
contemplate, bargain for/on, bank on, be prepared for, plan for
predict, forecast, foresee, prophesy, envisage, envision
1. 1.1 Regard (someone) as likely to do or be something.
  with object and infinitive they were not expecting him to continue
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'm expecting him to turn back around and continue.
  Everybody expects me to continue on, business as usual.
  Mom doesn't say anything, she just waits like she expects me to continue, so I do.
  Likely buyers were expected to be from America where the aircraft would earn its living in air shows.
  It takes place in the middle of the school half-term break when families are expected to flock to the attraction.
  The Liberal Democrat, Labour and Green groups are expected to put forward budget proposals over the next two weeks.
  Highways experts were today expected to reveal firm plans for safety improvements to a Ryedale accident blackspot.
  What happens when everyone expects you to forgive?
  Once she had reached him, he expected her to wait for him, but she continued to walk past him.
  Everyone turned to her, expecting her to continue.
  ‘I doubt we will see that scoreline again, but we can enter the game free of pressure because no-one expects us to win,’ he said.
  Whatever happens, she is not expected to live beyond a further year and is likely to succumb to a respiratory infection this winter.
  No one seriously expects us to win.
  The lady of the middle-class house wasn't expected to break into a sweat.
  I expect insurers and other firms to preserve their profit margins at all costs.
  Members of the corporate services board are expected to ratify the budget at a meeting later today.
  Dee expects him to continue to attend until the age limit of eighteen.
  It was pretty funny, but we didn't expect her to continue for too long, so we kept on going, walking along the road.
  She looked to him, expecting him to say something, yet he continued to stare into space.
  He looked at me as if I had gone insane, having expected me to tell him to shove off, most likely.
  Synonyms
  suppose, presume, think it likely, think, believe, imagine, assume, conjecture, surmise, calculate, judge
  trust
  informal guess, reckon
  North American informal figure
2. 1.2 Believe that (someone or something) will arrive soon.
  Celia was expecting a visitor
  Example sentencesExamples
  Holly was expecting her friend Natalie and brother Oliver was expecting his friend Ryan.
  We were told we had to wait for a short while, as they were expecting other couples, soon.
  David Cuddy did announce his intention to cease inter county hurling this year but he is expected back very soon.
  The next day we were expecting a visit from my cousin Bryan from Calgary.
  That monastery he talks about shouldn't expect him any time soon.
  We expect him home soon and we feel sure he will make a good recovery.
  Your mother is most likely expecting you for some family activity.
  The station is expecting another fuel delivery tomorrow, and stocks are expected to last until then.
3. 1.3 Require (something) as rightfully due or appropriate in the circumstances.
  we expect great things of you
  Example sentencesExamples
  We just expected the blood to be there for the transfusions he required during the operation.
  Yet, it demands motivation and expects honesty on the part of students, leading those who are suspicious to doubt the entire enterprise.
  I know it sounds like a very low brow thing to say, but I expect a bit more action from my spy genre!
  Society requires and expects protection from drunken drivers, speeding drivers and dangerous drivers.
  The band could get away with it 30 years ago, but today's demanding listener expects a bit more.
  Most of us switch the system on and off as we require; we expect lots of heat and hot water 365 days a year.
  When is it appropriate to begin expecting mature judgments from children?
  I had to make sure the end result was appealing as people paying premium rents expect nothing but the best.
  We went in 2003 and were pretty damned impressed, so we were expecting great things this year.
  Frankly, I expected better from a publication of the Sunday Herald's standing.
  On bad days I expect heaps of sympathy and whinge incessantly in the vain hope that it will be forthcoming.
  At the very least, I expect the toys we buy should work straight out of the package.
  If it isn't, training is stopped and they are firmly reminded what I expect from them.
  The company's customers in India are getting more demanding, and expect service from India, he said.
  He had a bit of a go at me and that's only fair because he expects a lot better from me and I expect a lot better from myself.
  Maybe I expect too much, but I only say what I feel because I think it is right to do so.
  But really, I might expect better of someone with a 4.0 GPA.
  The courts expect appropriate arrangements to be in place to ensure that police notes are properly preserved.
  It doesn't matter who you are, I try to treat people the same way and I expect the same back.
  Expanding student numbers has merely led to a needless inflation of what employers expect from applicants.
  Synonyms
  require, ask for, call for, look for, wish, want, hope for
  count on, rely on
  insist on, demand
4. 1.4 Require (someone) to fulfil an obligation.
  with object and infinitive we expect employers to pay a reasonable salary
  Example sentencesExamples
  There will also be key objectives aimed at reducing congestion, which any bidder will be expected to fulfil.
  The notice outlines roughly the requirements that prospective buyers are expected to meet.
  Right from the start, the aging mother, Mag, is demanding, and expects her daughter to wait on her hand and foot.
  I soon realised I was expected to be a role model, mentor and support the children.
  When a parent dies, older children may be expected to take up paid employment and care for younger siblings.
  They now expect me to pay the arrears I owe them through their inept management of resources.
  Bishops in England were likewise expected to fulfil a pastoral role.
  Employers don't expect you to know everything, but they do assume you are willing to learn.
  On the day of her departure, she found that she was expected to pay the resort bill, and had no money to do so.
  People do not pay taxes but expect us to provide them with facilities.
  Among its minimum requirements, the organization expects approved programs to employ two qualified liver transplant surgeons.
  Business expects people to work as and when required.
  If you do not have the right to vote, why then, should you be expected to pay taxes.
  Whatever the increase is, and however it is conveyed to us, we are still expected to pay a well above inflation increase.
  So why should I be expected to pay towards someone's studies to become a very well-paid lawyer or doctor?
  We are expected to pay by a certain date even though the development will not be completed.
  Students expect to be challenged today and firms expect their students to work at a much higher level than in the past.
  The bottom line is that employers expect you to have some sense of what you want to do in terms of career goals.
  Sheffield Council said staff were expected to be appropriate and professional, but no list was implemented.
  As a tenant, you are expected to pay your rent on time and respect your neighbours who live around your property.
5. 1.5I expectinformal Used to indicate that one supposes something to be so but has no firm evidence.
  they're just friends of his, I expect
  with clause I expect you know them?
  Example sentencesExamples
  The first has so many tracks I expect they're old recordings of obscure performers.
  That'd be a large downwards arrow for the benefit of the whining Wolves fans, I expect.
  I expect he's too busy at the moment to be opening supermarkets in Didcot.
  This is not what I went to uni for, albeit I expect next year will be much harder.
  In the main, I expect most of these arrive and leave around the morning and evening rush hour.
  There will be good and bad days, but I expect the rehab will be just as tough.
  Whether it is a leadership academy or whatever, is a matter for others to decide, I expect.
  In fact since her original words make her look silly I expect she was anxious to have the quote changed.
  I am fed up with your council rubbish and propaganda and I expect a lot of other people are as well.
  The other clipped two have disappeared to a nesting site further along the canal, I expect.
  Synonyms
  i assume, i expect, i believe, i presume, i take it, i suppose, i imagine, i dare say, i would have thought, it is to be presumed, i guess, in all probability, probably, in all likelihood, all things being equal, all things considered, as like as not, as likely as not, doubtless, undoubtedly, no doubt, without doubt

Phrases

be expecting (a baby)

informal Be pregnant.
his wife was expecting again
Example sentencesExamples
- The couple recently married, and are expecting their first baby soon.
- It is even more distressing when we are expecting our third child soon.
- It is understood that the woman was told during her pregnancy that she was expecting twins.
- The media-shy couple, who were fiercely tight-lipped about their year-long romance, broke the news they were expecting a baby shortly before they wed.
- The couple announced they were expecting a baby in November last year, when Louise was four months pregnant.
- A couple got a little more than they bargained for when they found they were expecting triplets
- I'm trying to get back into jogging but my wife Emma is expecting a baby in August - so I expect to be rather more occupied with that.
- We also had our own private joy as we had just learned that we were expecting our fifth child, Kian.
- The pair said they were overjoyed when they announced they were expecting their first baby earlier this month.
- He praised the young couple for their serious commitment, counselled them through a miscarriage and, at their wedding one year later, joyfully announced during the ceremony that they were expecting a baby.
Synonyms
pregnant, expecting a baby, having a baby, having a child, carrying a child

(only) to be expected

Completely normal.
he had a few lines about the eyes, but at forty-seven that was only to be expected
Example sentencesExamples
- The picture's slightly grainy, but that's only to be expected with a film this old.
- I mean, we had some great shows, and a whole lot of bad ones, but that's to be expected.
- Both sides made mistakes, but that is only to be expected as teams return from the winter break.
- I awoke with a mild hangover from a fun night: that much was to be expected.
- As was to be expected in the conditions time and time again they lost the ball or played to an opponent.
- Sadly - as is only to be expected, I suppose - the city council is taking the same line.
- A few sore throats a year are to be expected, but getting more than two suggests you ought to be having it looked into.
- There was a bit of snapping at each other, but that is to be expected.
- It is to be expected that effective patriots are rarely popular outside their homelands.
- As is to be expected at this level, no one boat is absolutely excelling and on-the-water rivalry is fierce.
Synonyms
unsurprising, expected, to be expected, predictable, foreseeable, inevitable

what can (or do) you expect?

Used to emphasize that there was nothing unexpected about a person or event, however disappointed one might be.
What do you expect? He was just like all the others, only you were too thick to see it
Example sentencesExamples
- Ever since the 1980s and the rise of the yuppie we've heard the refrain that ‘they see all this wealth on the TV which they haven't got - what do you expect?’
- The Doctor said ‘Well if you take class A drugs what do you expect?’
- Well, you're their little girl, what do you expect?
- But if the investment is not there, the engineers are not there, the equipment purchased is not up to scratch, then what do you expect?
- She just lost her child, Eric, what do you expect?

Derivatives

expectable

adjective ɪkˈspɛktəb(ə)lɛkˈspɛktəb(ə)lɪkˈspɛktəb(ə)l

People who know that rebuffs are expectable and that failure is remediable - that it results from lack of effort or situational factors and not personal inadequacy - are not debilitated by setbacks.
Example sentencesExamples
- What previously would have been dismissed as ‘wild’ analysis became acceptable and expectable, given these new models of image, text, and culture.
- If utilitarians want their theory to allow more moral knowledge, they can make a different kind of move by turning from actual consequences to expected or expectable consequences.
- But that is in fact an almost expectable event around his age, when people must come to terms with their limitations and old dreams for themselves.
- That kind of explanation on the part of the companies is expectable, but it's a cop-out.

expectably

adverbɪkˈspɛktəbliɛkˈspɛktəbliɪkˈspɛktəbli

In a way that is regarded as likely; as expected.
groups with expectably different world views
Example sentencesExamples
- sentence adverb expectably, the family never really forgave her
- Science has defined life, expectably, according to the empirical data available.
- The most ineffectually effete choreography comes, expectably, in the second-act numbers where men still dance with women, a veritable embarrassment of glitches.
- The views are expectably spectacular, including the descent to Menton.

expectedly

adverb

Has this particular realm of journalism lived up to your youthful - and expectedly utopian - expectations?
Example sentencesExamples
- She is now working for a doctorate, and expectedly, the topic relates to children and young people, their moral judgment in relation to self-concept, self-esteem, and moral values.
- The law is expectedly causing much controversy in many countries.
- This is exactly the idea I presented before them, and expectedly, they became very excited.
- Wages and salaries in the organised sector have, expectedly, been fairly buoyant through the 1990s.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense 'defer action, wait'): from Latin exspectare 'look out for', from ex- 'out' + spectare 'to look' (frequentative of specere 'see').

First meaning ‘to wait for’, expect entered English from Latin exspectare ‘to look out for’, from spectare ‘to look’. Spectare is also the source of spectacle and many other English words (see species). ‘England expects that every man will do his duty’ was the British admiral Lord Nelson's memorable last signal to his fleet before the Battle of Trafalgar, on 21 October 1805. See blind and kiss for more about Nelson.

Rhymes

affect, bisect, bull-necked, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, elect, erect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht

Definition of expect in US English:

expect

verbikˈspektɪkˈspɛkt

[with object]

1Regard (something) as likely to happen.
we expect the best
with object and infinitive he expects the stock market to sink further
with clause we expect that farmers will harvest 63 million acres of hay
Example sentencesExamples
- The red-hot temperatures are expected to send demand for water soaring.
- The firm expects this upward trend to continue as more companies increase space and headcount later this year to cope with expansion plans.
- Nearly half of all companies anticipated a drop in staffing levels, with just three, including two taxi firms, expecting an increase.
- For 2003, chip sales are expected to rise eight per cent to £7.9 billion.
- The best place to look for a new job is the financial industry with 63 per cent of firms expecting an increase in IT staff.
- At the same time, budget spending is expected to increase toward the end of the year.
- The decision, widely expected by economists, had little impact on the financial markets.
- Meanwhile, the chances of a white Christmas in York looked less likely as showers were expected to stay on the west side of the country.
- Analysts now expect 2001 sales to jump at least 70 %, to $736 million.
- Traffic jams were expected because farmers were taking livestock with them.
- The death toll was widely expected to rise.
- The firm expects a reduction of 10,000 this year, with about 4,000 of these being voluntary reductions.
- The firm expects interest rates to remain unchanged at least in the first half.
- His optimism is based on record profits at banks and oil firms but he also expects the recovery in the stock markets to increase receipts, despite concerns over the US economy.
- However, revenues are expected to grow at over 100 per cent per annum for the next three years.
- Farmers are now expecting prices to lift by an equivalent amount.
- World demand for energy is expected be about two thirds above current levels by 2030.
- The firm expects total investment in these three countries this year to be around €500 million, or half the total mainland Europe spend.
- The company is expected to announce its next move in the next few days.
- A further 19 per cent growth is expected by the end of this year.
Synonyms
anticipate, await, look for, hope for, watch for, look forward to, look ahead to, have in prospect
1. 1.1 Regard (someone) as likely to do or be something.
  with object and infinitive they were not expecting him to continue
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was pretty funny, but we didn't expect her to continue for too long, so we kept on going, walking along the road.
  I'm expecting him to turn back around and continue.
  The Liberal Democrat, Labour and Green groups are expected to put forward budget proposals over the next two weeks.
  I expect insurers and other firms to preserve their profit margins at all costs.
  No one seriously expects us to win.
  Mom doesn't say anything, she just waits like she expects me to continue, so I do.
  What happens when everyone expects you to forgive?
  ‘I doubt we will see that scoreline again, but we can enter the game free of pressure because no-one expects us to win,’ he said.
  Highways experts were today expected to reveal firm plans for safety improvements to a Ryedale accident blackspot.
  She looked to him, expecting him to say something, yet he continued to stare into space.
  Dee expects him to continue to attend until the age limit of eighteen.
  He looked at me as if I had gone insane, having expected me to tell him to shove off, most likely.
  Once she had reached him, he expected her to wait for him, but she continued to walk past him.
  Likely buyers were expected to be from America where the aircraft would earn its living in air shows.
  Members of the corporate services board are expected to ratify the budget at a meeting later today.
  The lady of the middle-class house wasn't expected to break into a sweat.
  Everybody expects me to continue on, business as usual.
  Everyone turned to her, expecting her to continue.
  Whatever happens, she is not expected to live beyond a further year and is likely to succumb to a respiratory infection this winter.
  It takes place in the middle of the school half-term break when families are expected to flock to the attraction.
  Synonyms
  suppose, presume, think it likely, think, believe, imagine, assume, conjecture, surmise, calculate, judge
2. 1.2 Believe that (someone or something) will arrive soon.
  Celia was expecting a visitor
  Example sentencesExamples
  We expect him home soon and we feel sure he will make a good recovery.
  The next day we were expecting a visit from my cousin Bryan from Calgary.
  We were told we had to wait for a short while, as they were expecting other couples, soon.
  That monastery he talks about shouldn't expect him any time soon.
  Holly was expecting her friend Natalie and brother Oliver was expecting his friend Ryan.
  Your mother is most likely expecting you for some family activity.
  The station is expecting another fuel delivery tomorrow, and stocks are expected to last until then.
  David Cuddy did announce his intention to cease inter county hurling this year but he is expected back very soon.
3. 1.3 Look for (something) from someone as rightfully due or requisite in the circumstances.
  we expect great things of you
  Example sentencesExamples
  Expanding student numbers has merely led to a needless inflation of what employers expect from applicants.
  But really, I might expect better of someone with a 4.0 GPA.
  The courts expect appropriate arrangements to be in place to ensure that police notes are properly preserved.
  Most of us switch the system on and off as we require; we expect lots of heat and hot water 365 days a year.
  Frankly, I expected better from a publication of the Sunday Herald's standing.
  The band could get away with it 30 years ago, but today's demanding listener expects a bit more.
  I had to make sure the end result was appealing as people paying premium rents expect nothing but the best.
  When is it appropriate to begin expecting mature judgments from children?
  We went in 2003 and were pretty damned impressed, so we were expecting great things this year.
  He had a bit of a go at me and that's only fair because he expects a lot better from me and I expect a lot better from myself.
  I know it sounds like a very low brow thing to say, but I expect a bit more action from my spy genre!
  The company's customers in India are getting more demanding, and expect service from India, he said.
  It doesn't matter who you are, I try to treat people the same way and I expect the same back.
  At the very least, I expect the toys we buy should work straight out of the package.
  If it isn't, training is stopped and they are firmly reminded what I expect from them.
  Society requires and expects protection from drunken drivers, speeding drivers and dangerous drivers.
  Maybe I expect too much, but I only say what I feel because I think it is right to do so.
  We just expected the blood to be there for the transfusions he required during the operation.
  Yet, it demands motivation and expects honesty on the part of students, leading those who are suspicious to doubt the entire enterprise.
  On bad days I expect heaps of sympathy and whinge incessantly in the vain hope that it will be forthcoming.
  Synonyms
  require, ask for, call for, look for, wish, want, hope for
4. 1.4 Require (someone) to fulfill an obligation.
  with object and infinitive we expect employers to pay a reasonable salary
  Example sentencesExamples
  The notice outlines roughly the requirements that prospective buyers are expected to meet.
  They now expect me to pay the arrears I owe them through their inept management of resources.
  As a tenant, you are expected to pay your rent on time and respect your neighbours who live around your property.
  There will also be key objectives aimed at reducing congestion, which any bidder will be expected to fulfil.
  So why should I be expected to pay towards someone's studies to become a very well-paid lawyer or doctor?
  Bishops in England were likewise expected to fulfil a pastoral role.
  I soon realised I was expected to be a role model, mentor and support the children.
  Among its minimum requirements, the organization expects approved programs to employ two qualified liver transplant surgeons.
  Employers don't expect you to know everything, but they do assume you are willing to learn.
  Sheffield Council said staff were expected to be appropriate and professional, but no list was implemented.
  When a parent dies, older children may be expected to take up paid employment and care for younger siblings.
  On the day of her departure, she found that she was expected to pay the resort bill, and had no money to do so.
  We are expected to pay by a certain date even though the development will not be completed.
  The bottom line is that employers expect you to have some sense of what you want to do in terms of career goals.
  Whatever the increase is, and however it is conveyed to us, we are still expected to pay a well above inflation increase.
  If you do not have the right to vote, why then, should you be expected to pay taxes.
  Right from the start, the aging mother, Mag, is demanding, and expects her daughter to wait on her hand and foot.
  People do not pay taxes but expect us to provide them with facilities.
  Students expect to be challenged today and firms expect their students to work at a much higher level than in the past.
  Business expects people to work as and when required.
5. 1.5I expectinformal Used to indicate that one supposes something to be so, but has no firm evidence or knowledge.
  they're just friends of his, I expect
  with clause I expect you know them?
  Example sentencesExamples
  The first has so many tracks I expect they're old recordings of obscure performers.
  In fact since her original words make her look silly I expect she was anxious to have the quote changed.
  There will be good and bad days, but I expect the rehab will be just as tough.
  Whether it is a leadership academy or whatever, is a matter for others to decide, I expect.
  In the main, I expect most of these arrive and leave around the morning and evening rush hour.
  This is not what I went to uni for, albeit I expect next year will be much harder.
  The other clipped two have disappeared to a nesting site further along the canal, I expect.
  I expect he's too busy at the moment to be opening supermarkets in Didcot.
  That'd be a large downwards arrow for the benefit of the whining Wolves fans, I expect.
  I am fed up with your council rubbish and propaganda and I expect a lot of other people are as well.
  Synonyms
  i assume, i expect, i believe, i presume, i take it, i suppose, i imagine, i dare say, i would have thought, it is to be presumed, i guess, in all probability, probably, in all likelihood, all things being equal, all things considered, as like as not, as likely as not, doubtless, undoubtedly, no doubt, without doubt

Phrases

be expecting (a baby)

informal Be pregnant.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is understood that the woman was told during her pregnancy that she was expecting twins.
- We also had our own private joy as we had just learned that we were expecting our fifth child, Kian.
- He praised the young couple for their serious commitment, counselled them through a miscarriage and, at their wedding one year later, joyfully announced during the ceremony that they were expecting a baby.
- The media-shy couple, who were fiercely tight-lipped about their year-long romance, broke the news they were expecting a baby shortly before they wed.
- The couple recently married, and are expecting their first baby soon.
- A couple got a little more than they bargained for when they found they were expecting triplets
- The couple announced they were expecting a baby in November last year, when Louise was four months pregnant.
- It is even more distressing when we are expecting our third child soon.
- The pair said they were overjoyed when they announced they were expecting their first baby earlier this month.
- I'm trying to get back into jogging but my wife Emma is expecting a baby in August - so I expect to be rather more occupied with that.
Synonyms
pregnant, expecting a baby, having a baby, having a child, carrying a child

(only) to be expected

Completely normal.
wild swings in the weather are to be expected
Example sentencesExamples
- I awoke with a mild hangover from a fun night: that much was to be expected.
- It is to be expected that effective patriots are rarely popular outside their homelands.
- Sadly - as is only to be expected, I suppose - the city council is taking the same line.
- The picture's slightly grainy, but that's only to be expected with a film this old.
- As was to be expected in the conditions time and time again they lost the ball or played to an opponent.
- Both sides made mistakes, but that is only to be expected as teams return from the winter break.
- As is to be expected at this level, no one boat is absolutely excelling and on-the-water rivalry is fierce.
- I mean, we had some great shows, and a whole lot of bad ones, but that's to be expected.
- A few sore throats a year are to be expected, but getting more than two suggests you ought to be having it looked into.
- There was a bit of snapping at each other, but that is to be expected.
Synonyms
unsurprising, expected, to be expected, predictable, foreseeable, inevitable

what can (or do) you expect?

Used to emphasize that there was nothing unexpected about a person or event, however disappointed one might be.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Doctor said ‘Well if you take class A drugs what do you expect?’
- Ever since the 1980s and the rise of the yuppie we've heard the refrain that ‘they see all this wealth on the TV which they haven't got - what do you expect?’
- But if the investment is not there, the engineers are not there, the equipment purchased is not up to scratch, then what do you expect?
- She just lost her child, Eric, what do you expect?
- Well, you're their little girl, what do you expect?

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘defer action, wait’): from Latin exspectare ‘look out for’, from ex- ‘out’ + spectare ‘to look’ (frequentative of specere ‘see’).

单词	expect
释义	Definition of expect in English: expect verb ɪkˈspɛktɛkˈspɛktɪkˈspɛkt [with object] 1Regard (something) as likely to happen. it's as well to expect the worst with object and infinitive the hearing is expected to last a week with clause one might expect that Hollywood would adjust its approach Example sentencesExamples The best place to look for a new job is the financial industry with 63 per cent of firms expecting an increase in IT staff. Analysts now expect 2001 sales to jump at least 70 %, to $736 million. The death toll was widely expected to rise. The decision, widely expected by economists, had little impact on the financial markets. His optimism is based on record profits at banks and oil firms but he also expects the recovery in the stock markets to increase receipts, despite concerns over the US economy. The firm expects a reduction of 10,000 this year, with about 4,000 of these being voluntary reductions. Farmers are now expecting prices to lift by an equivalent amount. World demand for energy is expected be about two thirds above current levels by 2030. The firm expects total investment in these three countries this year to be around €500 million, or half the total mainland Europe spend. A further 19 per cent growth is expected by the end of this year. For 2003, chip sales are expected to rise eight per cent to £7.9 billion. At the same time, budget spending is expected to increase toward the end of the year. Nearly half of all companies anticipated a drop in staffing levels, with just three, including two taxi firms, expecting an increase. However, revenues are expected to grow at over 100 per cent per annum for the next three years. Meanwhile, the chances of a white Christmas in York looked less likely as showers were expected to stay on the west side of the country. Traffic jams were expected because farmers were taking livestock with them. The red-hot temperatures are expected to send demand for water soaring. The firm expects interest rates to remain unchanged at least in the first half. The firm expects this upward trend to continue as more companies increase space and headcount later this year to cope with expansion plans. The company is expected to announce its next move in the next few days. Synonyms anticipate, await, look for, hope for, watch for, look forward to, look ahead to, have in prospect contemplate, bargain for/on, bank on, be prepared for, plan for predict, forecast, foresee, prophesy, envisage, envision 1.1 Regard (someone) as likely to do or be something. with object and infinitive they were not expecting him to continue Example sentencesExamples I'm expecting him to turn back around and continue. Everybody expects me to continue on, business as usual. Mom doesn't say anything, she just waits like she expects me to continue, so I do. Likely buyers were expected to be from America where the aircraft would earn its living in air shows. It takes place in the middle of the school half-term break when families are expected to flock to the attraction. The Liberal Democrat, Labour and Green groups are expected to put forward budget proposals over the next two weeks. Highways experts were today expected to reveal firm plans for safety improvements to a Ryedale accident blackspot. What happens when everyone expects you to forgive? Once she had reached him, he expected her to wait for him, but she continued to walk past him. Everyone turned to her, expecting her to continue. ‘I doubt we will see that scoreline again, but we can enter the game free of pressure because no-one expects us to win,’ he said. Whatever happens, she is not expected to live beyond a further year and is likely to succumb to a respiratory infection this winter. No one seriously expects us to win. The lady of the middle-class house wasn't expected to break into a sweat. I expect insurers and other firms to preserve their profit margins at all costs. Members of the corporate services board are expected to ratify the budget at a meeting later today. Dee expects him to continue to attend until the age limit of eighteen. It was pretty funny, but we didn't expect her to continue for too long, so we kept on going, walking along the road. She looked to him, expecting him to say something, yet he continued to stare into space. He looked at me as if I had gone insane, having expected me to tell him to shove off, most likely. Synonyms suppose, presume, think it likely, think, believe, imagine, assume, conjecture, surmise, calculate, judge trust informal guess, reckon North American informal figure 1.2 Believe that (someone or something) will arrive soon. Celia was expecting a visitor Example sentencesExamples Holly was expecting her friend Natalie and brother Oliver was expecting his friend Ryan. We were told we had to wait for a short while, as they were expecting other couples, soon. David Cuddy did announce his intention to cease inter county hurling this year but he is expected back very soon. The next day we were expecting a visit from my cousin Bryan from Calgary. That monastery he talks about shouldn't expect him any time soon. We expect him home soon and we feel sure he will make a good recovery. Your mother is most likely expecting you for some family activity. The station is expecting another fuel delivery tomorrow, and stocks are expected to last until then. 1.3 Require (something) as rightfully due or appropriate in the circumstances. we expect great things of you Example sentencesExamples We just expected the blood to be there for the transfusions he required during the operation. Yet, it demands motivation and expects honesty on the part of students, leading those who are suspicious to doubt the entire enterprise. I know it sounds like a very low brow thing to say, but I expect a bit more action from my spy genre! Society requires and expects protection from drunken drivers, speeding drivers and dangerous drivers. The band could get away with it 30 years ago, but today's demanding listener expects a bit more. Most of us switch the system on and off as we require; we expect lots of heat and hot water 365 days a year. When is it appropriate to begin expecting mature judgments from children? I had to make sure the end result was appealing as people paying premium rents expect nothing but the best. We went in 2003 and were pretty damned impressed, so we were expecting great things this year. Frankly, I expected better from a publication of the Sunday Herald's standing. On bad days I expect heaps of sympathy and whinge incessantly in the vain hope that it will be forthcoming. At the very least, I expect the toys we buy should work straight out of the package. If it isn't, training is stopped and they are firmly reminded what I expect from them. The company's customers in India are getting more demanding, and expect service from India, he said. He had a bit of a go at me and that's only fair because he expects a lot better from me and I expect a lot better from myself. Maybe I expect too much, but I only say what I feel because I think it is right to do so. But really, I might expect better of someone with a 4.0 GPA. The courts expect appropriate arrangements to be in place to ensure that police notes are properly preserved. It doesn't matter who you are, I try to treat people the same way and I expect the same back. Expanding student numbers has merely led to a needless inflation of what employers expect from applicants. Synonyms require, ask for, call for, look for, wish, want, hope for count on, rely on insist on, demand 1.4 Require (someone) to fulfil an obligation. with object and infinitive we expect employers to pay a reasonable salary Example sentencesExamples There will also be key objectives aimed at reducing congestion, which any bidder will be expected to fulfil. The notice outlines roughly the requirements that prospective buyers are expected to meet. Right from the start, the aging mother, Mag, is demanding, and expects her daughter to wait on her hand and foot. I soon realised I was expected to be a role model, mentor and support the children. When a parent dies, older children may be expected to take up paid employment and care for younger siblings. They now expect me to pay the arrears I owe them through their inept management of resources. Bishops in England were likewise expected to fulfil a pastoral role. Employers don't expect you to know everything, but they do assume you are willing to learn. On the day of her departure, she found that she was expected to pay the resort bill, and had no money to do so. People do not pay taxes but expect us to provide them with facilities. Among its minimum requirements, the organization expects approved programs to employ two qualified liver transplant surgeons. Business expects people to work as and when required. If you do not have the right to vote, why then, should you be expected to pay taxes. Whatever the increase is, and however it is conveyed to us, we are still expected to pay a well above inflation increase. So why should I be expected to pay towards someone's studies to become a very well-paid lawyer or doctor? We are expected to pay by a certain date even though the development will not be completed. Students expect to be challenged today and firms expect their students to work at a much higher level than in the past. The bottom line is that employers expect you to have some sense of what you want to do in terms of career goals. Sheffield Council said staff were expected to be appropriate and professional, but no list was implemented. As a tenant, you are expected to pay your rent on time and respect your neighbours who live around your property. 1.5I expectinformal Used to indicate that one supposes something to be so but has no firm evidence. they're just friends of his, I expect with clause I expect you know them? Example sentencesExamples The first has so many tracks I expect they're old recordings of obscure performers. That'd be a large downwards arrow for the benefit of the whining Wolves fans, I expect. I expect he's too busy at the moment to be opening supermarkets in Didcot. This is not what I went to uni for, albeit I expect next year will be much harder. In the main, I expect most of these arrive and leave around the morning and evening rush hour. There will be good and bad days, but I expect the rehab will be just as tough. Whether it is a leadership academy or whatever, is a matter for others to decide, I expect. In fact since her original words make her look silly I expect she was anxious to have the quote changed. I am fed up with your council rubbish and propaganda and I expect a lot of other people are as well. The other clipped two have disappeared to a nesting site further along the canal, I expect. Synonyms i assume, i expect, i believe, i presume, i take it, i suppose, i imagine, i dare say, i would have thought, it is to be presumed, i guess, in all probability, probably, in all likelihood, all things being equal, all things considered, as like as not, as likely as not, doubtless, undoubtedly, no doubt, without doubt Phrases be expecting (a baby) informal Be pregnant. his wife was expecting again Example sentencesExamples The couple recently married, and are expecting their first baby soon. It is even more distressing when we are expecting our third child soon. It is understood that the woman was told during her pregnancy that she was expecting twins. The media-shy couple, who were fiercely tight-lipped about their year-long romance, broke the news they were expecting a baby shortly before they wed. The couple announced they were expecting a baby in November last year, when Louise was four months pregnant. A couple got a little more than they bargained for when they found they were expecting triplets I'm trying to get back into jogging but my wife Emma is expecting a baby in August - so I expect to be rather more occupied with that. We also had our own private joy as we had just learned that we were expecting our fifth child, Kian. The pair said they were overjoyed when they announced they were expecting their first baby earlier this month. He praised the young couple for their serious commitment, counselled them through a miscarriage and, at their wedding one year later, joyfully announced during the ceremony that they were expecting a baby. Synonyms pregnant, expecting a baby, having a baby, having a child, carrying a child (only) to be expected Completely normal. he had a few lines about the eyes, but at forty-seven that was only to be expected Example sentencesExamples The picture's slightly grainy, but that's only to be expected with a film this old. I mean, we had some great shows, and a whole lot of bad ones, but that's to be expected. Both sides made mistakes, but that is only to be expected as teams return from the winter break. I awoke with a mild hangover from a fun night: that much was to be expected. As was to be expected in the conditions time and time again they lost the ball or played to an opponent. Sadly - as is only to be expected, I suppose - the city council is taking the same line. A few sore throats a year are to be expected, but getting more than two suggests you ought to be having it looked into. There was a bit of snapping at each other, but that is to be expected. It is to be expected that effective patriots are rarely popular outside their homelands. As is to be expected at this level, no one boat is absolutely excelling and on-the-water rivalry is fierce. Synonyms unsurprising, expected, to be expected, predictable, foreseeable, inevitable what can (or do) you expect? Used to emphasize that there was nothing unexpected about a person or event, however disappointed one might be. What do you expect? He was just like all the others, only you were too thick to see it Example sentencesExamples Ever since the 1980s and the rise of the yuppie we've heard the refrain that ‘they see all this wealth on the TV which they haven't got - what do you expect?’ The Doctor said ‘Well if you take class A drugs what do you expect?’ Well, you're their little girl, what do you expect? But if the investment is not there, the engineers are not there, the equipment purchased is not up to scratch, then what do you expect? She just lost her child, Eric, what do you expect? Derivatives expectable adjective ɪkˈspɛktəb(ə)lɛkˈspɛktəb(ə)lɪkˈspɛktəb(ə)l People who know that rebuffs are expectable and that failure is remediable - that it results from lack of effort or situational factors and not personal inadequacy - are not debilitated by setbacks. Example sentencesExamples What previously would have been dismissed as ‘wild’ analysis became acceptable and expectable, given these new models of image, text, and culture. If utilitarians want their theory to allow more moral knowledge, they can make a different kind of move by turning from actual consequences to expected or expectable consequences. But that is in fact an almost expectable event around his age, when people must come to terms with their limitations and old dreams for themselves. That kind of explanation on the part of the companies is expectable, but it's a cop-out. expectably adverbɪkˈspɛktəbliɛkˈspɛktəbliɪkˈspɛktəbli In a way that is regarded as likely; as expected. groups with expectably different world views Example sentencesExamples sentence adverb expectably, the family never really forgave her Science has defined life, expectably, according to the empirical data available. The most ineffectually effete choreography comes, expectably, in the second-act numbers where men still dance with women, a veritable embarrassment of glitches. The views are expectably spectacular, including the descent to Menton. expectedly adverb Has this particular realm of journalism lived up to your youthful - and expectedly utopian - expectations? Example sentencesExamples She is now working for a doctorate, and expectedly, the topic relates to children and young people, their moral judgment in relation to self-concept, self-esteem, and moral values. The law is expectedly causing much controversy in many countries. This is exactly the idea I presented before them, and expectedly, they became very excited. Wages and salaries in the organised sector have, expectedly, been fairly buoyant through the 1990s. Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense 'defer action, wait'): from Latin exspectare 'look out for', from ex- 'out' + spectare 'to look' (frequentative of specere 'see'). First meaning ‘to wait for’, expect entered English from Latin exspectare ‘to look out for’, from spectare ‘to look’. Spectare is also the source of spectacle and many other English words (see species). ‘England expects that every man will do his duty’ was the British admiral Lord Nelson's memorable last signal to his fleet before the Battle of Trafalgar, on 21 October 1805. See blind and kiss for more about Nelson. Rhymes affect, bisect, bull-necked, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, elect, erect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht verb.1 phr. Definition of expect in US English: expect verbikˈspektɪkˈspɛkt [with object] 1Regard (something) as likely to happen. we expect the best with object and infinitive he expects the stock market to sink further with clause we expect that farmers will harvest 63 million acres of hay Example sentencesExamples The red-hot temperatures are expected to send demand for water soaring. The firm expects this upward trend to continue as more companies increase space and headcount later this year to cope with expansion plans. Nearly half of all companies anticipated a drop in staffing levels, with just three, including two taxi firms, expecting an increase. For 2003, chip sales are expected to rise eight per cent to £7.9 billion. The best place to look for a new job is the financial industry with 63 per cent of firms expecting an increase in IT staff. At the same time, budget spending is expected to increase toward the end of the year. The decision, widely expected by economists, had little impact on the financial markets. Meanwhile, the chances of a white Christmas in York looked less likely as showers were expected to stay on the west side of the country. Analysts now expect 2001 sales to jump at least 70 %, to $736 million. Traffic jams were expected because farmers were taking livestock with them. The death toll was widely expected to rise. The firm expects a reduction of 10,000 this year, with about 4,000 of these being voluntary reductions. The firm expects interest rates to remain unchanged at least in the first half. His optimism is based on record profits at banks and oil firms but he also expects the recovery in the stock markets to increase receipts, despite concerns over the US economy. However, revenues are expected to grow at over 100 per cent per annum for the next three years. Farmers are now expecting prices to lift by an equivalent amount. World demand for energy is expected be about two thirds above current levels by 2030. The firm expects total investment in these three countries this year to be around €500 million, or half the total mainland Europe spend. The company is expected to announce its next move in the next few days. A further 19 per cent growth is expected by the end of this year. Synonyms anticipate, await, look for, hope for, watch for, look forward to, look ahead to, have in prospect 1.1 Regard (someone) as likely to do or be something. with object and infinitive they were not expecting him to continue Example sentencesExamples It was pretty funny, but we didn't expect her to continue for too long, so we kept on going, walking along the road. I'm expecting him to turn back around and continue. The Liberal Democrat, Labour and Green groups are expected to put forward budget proposals over the next two weeks. I expect insurers and other firms to preserve their profit margins at all costs. No one seriously expects us to win. Mom doesn't say anything, she just waits like she expects me to continue, so I do. What happens when everyone expects you to forgive? ‘I doubt we will see that scoreline again, but we can enter the game free of pressure because no-one expects us to win,’ he said. Highways experts were today expected to reveal firm plans for safety improvements to a Ryedale accident blackspot. She looked to him, expecting him to say something, yet he continued to stare into space. Dee expects him to continue to attend until the age limit of eighteen. He looked at me as if I had gone insane, having expected me to tell him to shove off, most likely. Once she had reached him, he expected her to wait for him, but she continued to walk past him. Likely buyers were expected to be from America where the aircraft would earn its living in air shows. Members of the corporate services board are expected to ratify the budget at a meeting later today. The lady of the middle-class house wasn't expected to break into a sweat. Everybody expects me to continue on, business as usual. Everyone turned to her, expecting her to continue. Whatever happens, she is not expected to live beyond a further year and is likely to succumb to a respiratory infection this winter. It takes place in the middle of the school half-term break when families are expected to flock to the attraction. Synonyms suppose, presume, think it likely, think, believe, imagine, assume, conjecture, surmise, calculate, judge 1.2 Believe that (someone or something) will arrive soon. Celia was expecting a visitor Example sentencesExamples We expect him home soon and we feel sure he will make a good recovery. The next day we were expecting a visit from my cousin Bryan from Calgary. We were told we had to wait for a short while, as they were expecting other couples, soon. That monastery he talks about shouldn't expect him any time soon. Holly was expecting her friend Natalie and brother Oliver was expecting his friend Ryan. Your mother is most likely expecting you for some family activity. The station is expecting another fuel delivery tomorrow, and stocks are expected to last until then. David Cuddy did announce his intention to cease inter county hurling this year but he is expected back very soon. 1.3 Look for (something) from someone as rightfully due or requisite in the circumstances. we expect great things of you Example sentencesExamples Expanding student numbers has merely led to a needless inflation of what employers expect from applicants. But really, I might expect better of someone with a 4.0 GPA. The courts expect appropriate arrangements to be in place to ensure that police notes are properly preserved. Most of us switch the system on and off as we require; we expect lots of heat and hot water 365 days a year. Frankly, I expected better from a publication of the Sunday Herald's standing. The band could get away with it 30 years ago, but today's demanding listener expects a bit more. I had to make sure the end result was appealing as people paying premium rents expect nothing but the best. When is it appropriate to begin expecting mature judgments from children? We went in 2003 and were pretty damned impressed, so we were expecting great things this year. He had a bit of a go at me and that's only fair because he expects a lot better from me and I expect a lot better from myself. I know it sounds like a very low brow thing to say, but I expect a bit more action from my spy genre! The company's customers in India are getting more demanding, and expect service from India, he said. It doesn't matter who you are, I try to treat people the same way and I expect the same back. At the very least, I expect the toys we buy should work straight out of the package. If it isn't, training is stopped and they are firmly reminded what I expect from them. Society requires and expects protection from drunken drivers, speeding drivers and dangerous drivers. Maybe I expect too much, but I only say what I feel because I think it is right to do so. We just expected the blood to be there for the transfusions he required during the operation. Yet, it demands motivation and expects honesty on the part of students, leading those who are suspicious to doubt the entire enterprise. On bad days I expect heaps of sympathy and whinge incessantly in the vain hope that it will be forthcoming. Synonyms require, ask for, call for, look for, wish, want, hope for 1.4 Require (someone) to fulfill an obligation. with object and infinitive we expect employers to pay a reasonable salary Example sentencesExamples The notice outlines roughly the requirements that prospective buyers are expected to meet. They now expect me to pay the arrears I owe them through their inept management of resources. As a tenant, you are expected to pay your rent on time and respect your neighbours who live around your property. There will also be key objectives aimed at reducing congestion, which any bidder will be expected to fulfil. So why should I be expected to pay towards someone's studies to become a very well-paid lawyer or doctor? Bishops in England were likewise expected to fulfil a pastoral role. I soon realised I was expected to be a role model, mentor and support the children. Among its minimum requirements, the organization expects approved programs to employ two qualified liver transplant surgeons. Employers don't expect you to know everything, but they do assume you are willing to learn. Sheffield Council said staff were expected to be appropriate and professional, but no list was implemented. When a parent dies, older children may be expected to take up paid employment and care for younger siblings. On the day of her departure, she found that she was expected to pay the resort bill, and had no money to do so. We are expected to pay by a certain date even though the development will not be completed. The bottom line is that employers expect you to have some sense of what you want to do in terms of career goals. Whatever the increase is, and however it is conveyed to us, we are still expected to pay a well above inflation increase. If you do not have the right to vote, why then, should you be expected to pay taxes. Right from the start, the aging mother, Mag, is demanding, and expects her daughter to wait on her hand and foot. People do not pay taxes but expect us to provide them with facilities. Students expect to be challenged today and firms expect their students to work at a much higher level than in the past. Business expects people to work as and when required. 1.5I expectinformal Used to indicate that one supposes something to be so, but has no firm evidence or knowledge. they're just friends of his, I expect with clause I expect you know them? Example sentencesExamples The first has so many tracks I expect they're old recordings of obscure performers. In fact since her original words make her look silly I expect she was anxious to have the quote changed. There will be good and bad days, but I expect the rehab will be just as tough. Whether it is a leadership academy or whatever, is a matter for others to decide, I expect. In the main, I expect most of these arrive and leave around the morning and evening rush hour. This is not what I went to uni for, albeit I expect next year will be much harder. The other clipped two have disappeared to a nesting site further along the canal, I expect. I expect he's too busy at the moment to be opening supermarkets in Didcot. That'd be a large downwards arrow for the benefit of the whining Wolves fans, I expect. I am fed up with your council rubbish and propaganda and I expect a lot of other people are as well. Synonyms i assume, i expect, i believe, i presume, i take it, i suppose, i imagine, i dare say, i would have thought, it is to be presumed, i guess, in all probability, probably, in all likelihood, all things being equal, all things considered, as like as not, as likely as not, doubtless, undoubtedly, no doubt, without doubt Phrases be expecting (a baby) informal Be pregnant. Example sentencesExamples It is understood that the woman was told during her pregnancy that she was expecting twins. We also had our own private joy as we had just learned that we were expecting our fifth child, Kian. He praised the young couple for their serious commitment, counselled them through a miscarriage and, at their wedding one year later, joyfully announced during the ceremony that they were expecting a baby. The media-shy couple, who were fiercely tight-lipped about their year-long romance, broke the news they were expecting a baby shortly before they wed. The couple recently married, and are expecting their first baby soon. A couple got a little more than they bargained for when they found they were expecting triplets The couple announced they were expecting a baby in November last year, when Louise was four months pregnant. It is even more distressing when we are expecting our third child soon. The pair said they were overjoyed when they announced they were expecting their first baby earlier this month. I'm trying to get back into jogging but my wife Emma is expecting a baby in August - so I expect to be rather more occupied with that. Synonyms pregnant, expecting a baby, having a baby, having a child, carrying a child (only) to be expected Completely normal. wild swings in the weather are to be expected Example sentencesExamples I awoke with a mild hangover from a fun night: that much was to be expected. It is to be expected that effective patriots are rarely popular outside their homelands. Sadly - as is only to be expected, I suppose - the city council is taking the same line. The picture's slightly grainy, but that's only to be expected with a film this old. As was to be expected in the conditions time and time again they lost the ball or played to an opponent. Both sides made mistakes, but that is only to be expected as teams return from the winter break. As is to be expected at this level, no one boat is absolutely excelling and on-the-water rivalry is fierce. I mean, we had some great shows, and a whole lot of bad ones, but that's to be expected. A few sore throats a year are to be expected, but getting more than two suggests you ought to be having it looked into. There was a bit of snapping at each other, but that is to be expected. Synonyms unsurprising, expected, to be expected, predictable, foreseeable, inevitable what can (or do) you expect? Used to emphasize that there was nothing unexpected about a person or event, however disappointed one might be. Example sentencesExamples The Doctor said ‘Well if you take class A drugs what do you expect?’ Ever since the 1980s and the rise of the yuppie we've heard the refrain that ‘they see all this wealth on the TV which they haven't got - what do you expect?’ But if the investment is not there, the engineers are not there, the equipment purchased is not up to scratch, then what do you expect? She just lost her child, Eric, what do you expect? Well, you're their little girl, what do you expect? Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘defer action, wait’): from Latin exspectare ‘look out for’, from ex- ‘out’ + spectare ‘to look’ (frequentative of specere ‘see’). verb.1 phr.
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