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 © Cambridge University Press)

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