Usually means: Anticipated as a likely outcome.
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  1. to be expected: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. (only) to be expected: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. to be expected: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. to be expected: Wiktionary

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  1. to be expected: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. to be expected: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. to be expected: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (to be expected)

▸ adjective:  likely to happen; typical, predictable

Similar:
anticipated, predictable, foreseeable, inevitable, causable, liable, presumably, agible, assumable, cogitable, more...

Phrases:
word that means to be expected, as to be expected, as was to be expected, it was to be expected, more...

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Similar:
anticipated, predictable, foreseeable, inevitable, causable, liable, presumably, agible, assumable, cogitable, more...

Phrases:
word that means to be expected, as to be expected, as was to be expected, it was to be expected, more...



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