Usually means: Anticipates occurrence or action likely.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. expects: Merriam-Webster
  2. expects: Collins English Dictionary
  3. expects: Vocabulary.com
  4. Expects, expects: Wordnik
  5. expects: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. expects: Wiktionary
  7. expects: Dictionary.com
  8. expects: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. expects: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expects: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expects: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expects: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expects: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (expect)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
verb:  To consider obligatory or required.
verb:  To consider reasonably due.
verb:  (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.
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