expect

Etymology

From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
   I expect to be able to walk again after getting over my broken leg.
   He never expected to be discovered.
   We ended up waiting a little longer than we had expected
   The doctor said he expected me to make a full recovery.
   And temperatures are expected to keep rising. File:And temperatures are expected to keep rising.ogg 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
2. To consider obligatory or required.
   England expects that every man will do his duty. 1805, Nelson, Horatio via Pasco, John, signal sent at the Battle of Trafalgar
   I was born and immediately thrown into a society that makes its own rules, standards, and expectations. I am expected to behave. I am expected to deliver. I am expected to live up to the contrived standards of the society. 2015, Sajith Buvi, I Am 7.5 Billion Human, page 49
3. To consider reasonably due.
   You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week.
4. (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
   “You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,” 2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller
5. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
   The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations. 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25
6. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.