expect

Meaning

Verb

To predict or believe that something will happen
To consider obligatory or required.
To consider reasonably due.
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
To wait for; to await.
To wait; to stay.

Origin

From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō, from ex + spectō, frequentative of speciō.

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