Word Finder - expects

definition

To predict or believe that something will happen

example

He never expected to be discovered.

synonyms

• anticipate
• hope
• look for

definition

To consider obligatory or required.

synonyms

• call for
• demand

definition

To consider reasonably due.

example

You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.

synonyms

• hope
• want
• wish

definition

(continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.

definition

To wait for; to await.

synonyms

• await

definition

To wait; to stay.

synonyms

• wait

At these parties his feelings were like those of a conjuror who always expects his trick to be found out at any moment.

And he expects me not to be afraid.

Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness of a parade.

Our author, like Paul, expects the hearers of the word to be "a kind of first-fruits to God of his creation."

Hotspur expects to bolster morale with a comic reminder of Hal's deficiencies.

Your father expects it.

The school expects its senior prefects to take an active role in the day-to-day running of the school.

She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign ministers, before important decisions are taken, based upon that intercourse; to receive the foreign despatches in good time, and to have the drafts for her approval sent her in sufficient time to make herself acquainted with their contents before they must be sent off.

In view of the connexion, the poem is interpreted as expressing Lamech's exultation at the advantage he expects to derive from Tubal-Cain's new inventions; the worker in bronze will forge for him new and formidable weapons, so that he will be able to take signal vengeance for the least injury.

A great dislike is shown generally to a written contract binding the parties to a fixed date; and, as a rule, on breaking it the Persian always appeals for and expects delay and indefinite days of grace.

The bonanza farmer expects one machine to cut at least 250 acres, and three men are required for each of them.

Among the vessels expects off Scotland, probably in March 2000, will be the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower.

The company expects to spend $ 32bn on the one-time payout and $ 30bn on the stock buyback.

He no more expects to be famous for thinking than for smoking cigars.

Prechter has said that he expects that the crash in stock markets will be accompanied by a period of global economic deflation.

The Board expects its entire staff to promote race equality in carrying out their duties.

Steve Burns expects Combe to remain a hotbed of FF1600 action under the CCRC regime.

These guys had accomplished all that the multicultural society expects to be accomplished by the children of first-generation immigrants.

The Department expects that PhD students will submit within four years from their date of registration (taking intermissions into account ).

Sadly one almost expects waterways to have assorted junk in them and Salmon's Brook is no exception.

Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

This kind of activity could provide a starting point for the development of the much richer ontology that the Hypermedata approach expects.

It is also clear that he expects payback from the faith he shows in his young charges.

In the long term the Government expects up to 5% of the teaching profession to have gone through the fast track.

Oh, and not every bloke expects or wants a quickie on a first date despite what others might suggest.

These bad dreams are behind the latest reshuffle, which clearly defines the order of battle Microsoft expects over the next few years.

For he expects that the question which court was first seised will be decided, for English purposes, on that occasion.

Anyone who expects an unequivocal statement that the UFOs are interplanetary spacecraft is surely being a little naive, to say the least.

Yahoo alone expects to receive 600 civil subpoenas this year -- a 50 percent jump from 2002.

The latest poll also found nearly one in five respondents expects turnover to grow by more than 15% .

The company is currently unprofitable and expects to turn over £ 48m this year, but the price aims to reflect its future prospects.

Here in Dr. Bell's laboratory, or in the fields on the shore of the great Bras d'Or, I have spent many delightful hours listening to what he had to tell me about his experiments, and helping him fly kites by means of which he expects to discover the laws that shall govern the future air-ship.

Here is a hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith, Cuttingsville, Vermont, some trader among the Green Mountains, who imports for the farmers near his clearing, and now perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals on the coast, how they may affect the price for him, telling his customers this moment, as he has told them twenty times before this morning, that he expects some by the next train of prime quality.

The python script by default expects your data to be stored in a certain form.

After reaching from office male partner expects his wife fresh and sexy who is heavily tired of hardship.

The latest poll also found nearly one in five respondents expects turnover to grow by more than 15 %.

But the ordinary digger neither hopes nor expects to unearth such treasures as these.

The untutored reader expects to find fearless John taking on the mighty.

You most likely won't want to send red roses to a friend, and you wouldn't want to send just anything to the person you love when she expects you to know her favorites.

The number one factor to keep in mind when comparing snow blowers is the amount of snow your region expects each winter.

The reader expects to be on the edge of the seat for most of the book.

Within the next fifteen years the country expects to substitute biodiesel for at least twenty percent of its conventional diesel.

The Energy Information Administration expects the use of renewable energy to increase over the next several decades.

No one expects newbie shutterbugs to lug around thick photo manuals while they're out in the field.

Everyone expects wedding cakes to be white, but heart cakes done in soft pink, off-white, ivory, or fire-engine red are especially memorable and look great in photographs.

What does it say about a country that has spent decades to fight for equal rights for women, only to require its newscasters to live up to the model-thin images that it expects from its entertainers?

This is due to the fact that the government expects parents to make a reasonable contribution to your education.

Remember, training your dog is not unlike training your child to behave in a way society expects.

No one expects you to come in wearing a tailored designer suit, but you should show you understand what real style is.

No one expects seniors to get everything for free.