Synonyms for expect
ɪkˈspɛktex·pect

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1. expectverb

   Synonyms:
   anticipate, await, hope, look for

2. expectverb

   To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).

   Synonyms:
   hope, await, look for, anticipate

3. expectverb

   To consider obligatory or required.

   Synonyms:
   await, anticipate, hope, look for

4. expectverb

   To consider reasonably due.

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

   Synonyms:
   hope, await, look for, anticipate

5. expectverb

   to be pregnant, to consider a baby due

   Synonyms:
   hope, look for, await, anticipate

6. expectverb

   To wait for; to await.

   Synonyms:
   hope, look for, anticipate, await

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1. expect

   To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

   Synonyms:
   abide, anticipate, await, bear, bide, confront, continue, dwell, endure, inhabit, live, lodge, remain, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, tolerate, wait, watch

   Antonyms:
   abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

   Preposition:
   Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

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1. expect

   Synonyms:
   anticipate, await, forecast, forebode, wait for, rely on, look for, foresee

   Antonyms:
   welcome, hail, recognize, greet, realize

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1. expect, anticipateverb

   regard something as probable or likely

   "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow"

   Synonyms:
   predict, await, counter, foreknow, previse, look for, forestall, look, gestate, wait, require, anticipate, call, prognosticate, look to, have a bun in the oven, foresee, carry, ask, foretell, forebode, bear, promise

2. ask, require, expectverb

   consider obligatory; request and expect

   "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"

   Synonyms:
   await, call for, demand, enquire, inquire, need, look, involve, wait, want, require, have a bun in the oven, necessitate, postulate, anticipate, gestate, take, carry, ask, command, bear

3. expect, look, await, waitverb

   look forward to the probable occurrence of

   "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted"

   Synonyms:
   count, await, search, appear, depend, hold back, seem, carry, hold off, front, reckon, look, gestate, wait, bet, attend, require, anticipate, waitress, take care, have a bun in the oven, face, ask, calculate, bear, see

4. expectverb

   consider reasonable or due

   "I'm expecting a full explanation as to why these files were destroyed"

   Synonyms:
   require, gestate, look, wait, ask, carry, anticipate, have a bun in the oven, await, bear

5. expectverb

   look forward to the birth of a child

   "She is expecting in March"

   Synonyms:
   require, gestate, look, wait, ask, carry, anticipate, have a bun in the oven, await, bear

6. have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expectverb

   be pregnant with

   "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child"

   Synonyms:
   digest, abide, express, comport, tolerate, conceptualize, look, pack, have a bun in the oven, support, impart, require, behave, await, extend, run, sway, endure, put up, take, stick out, deport, assume, pay, ask, take over, dribble, channel, carry, transport, stomach, birth, stock, hold, transmit, conceptualise, have, deliver, acquit, brook, yield, turn out, convey, persuade, post, conduct, suffer, contain, stand, accept, gestate, wait, wear, stockpile, conceive, anticipate, give birth, bear

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1. expectverb

   Synonyms:
   await, wait for

2. expectverb

   Synonyms:
   anticipate, look for, look forward to, count upon, reckon upon, calculate upon, rely upon

3. expectverb

   Synonyms:
   HOPE, hope for

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1. expectverb

   Synonyms:
   anticipate

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1. List of paraphrases for "expect":

   wait, await, hope, anticipate, expects, look

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How to use expect in a sentence?

1. David Neeleman:

   This year it will be difficult to have a profit because of the crisis in Brazil and other things. But next year, when we've implemented our changes, we expect to have a profit, and post profits going forward.

2. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker:

   While I don't expect the ship to turn tomorrow, I do believe the following, despite all of the reports and studies that have been done over the past decade concerning shortcomings at DCF, there has not been a coordinated, sustained effort to bake improvements and reforms into the daily operations of the department.

3. Van Der Breggen:

   I didn't expect all that when I started cycling at the age of seven, when I was that young I often went along to my brothers' training riders and races. After having ridden a couple of races Van Der Breggen, I was sold.

4. Behrouz Kamalvandi:

   As far as the other side does not implement their commitments, they should not expect Iran to fulfill its commitments.

5. Pat McDonough:

   They have trademarked words like McKids, McFamily, McCountry, McWorld, McJob and McInternet in order to, over time, squeeze out smaller family-based businesses, this means that if any McGrath, McCarthy or McDermott with a business idea uses their name in the title of that business or product, the chances are McDonald’s already own the trademark and you can probably expect a knock on the door from them.