expect
verb (THINK) /ɪkˈspekt/Definition
B1 [T] to think or believe something will happen, or someone will arrive: We are expecting a lot of applicants for the job. [+ (that)] I expect (that) you'll find it somewhere in your bedroom. I expect (that) he'd have left anyway. [+ to infinitive] He didn't expect to see me. The financial performance of the business is fully expected (= almost certain) to improve. We were half expecting you not to come back.Planning, expecting and arrangingPlotting and trapping (only) to be expected › normal and what usually happens: All parents of small children get tired. It's to be expected.Habitual and customary
(Definition of expect verb (THINK) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- accustomed adjective
- all in a day's work idiom
- as a (general) rule idiom
- as a matter of course idiom
- as often as not idiom
- habitual adjective
- inveterate adjective
- knee-jerk adjective
- mainline adjective (COMMON)
- make it a rule idiom
- mechanical adjective (WITHOUT THOUGHT)
- mechanically adverb (WITHOUT THOUGHT)
- more often than not idiom
- normally adverb
- ordinarily adverb
- prevail verb
- pro forma adjective, adverb
- regulation adjective
- territory noun (SUBJECT)
- the rule idiom
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