expect

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Q I just want to know what do you expect from the French and the European countries regarding the war on terror?

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  1. transitive verb To look forward to the probable occurrence or appearance of: expecting a telephone call; expects rain on Sunday.
  2. transitive verb To consider likely or certain: expect to see them soon. See Usage Note at anticipate.
  3. transitive verb To consider reasonable or due: We expect an apology.

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  • • What leadership can we expect from the Czechs now that they have assumed the presidency of the European Union? —  Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • Allowing an unlicensed driver to take the wheel of an oversized campaign vehicle is exactly the type of poor judgment we've come to expect from the Maltese crowd. —  Queens Crap
  • Ward, as she no doubt prefers to be entitled, comes with all the humour, subtlety, class, and understanding we have come to expect from the Irish Times school of American female journalists. —  Slugger O'Toole
  • Q I just want to know what do you expect from the French and the European countries regarding the war on terror? —  Hotline On Call
  • As one would expect from a Swedish knight, Antonio Lima-de-Faria prefers personal communication. —  ScreenTalk
 

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  1. Latin exspectāre : ex-, ex- + spectāre, to look at, frequentative of specere, to see; see spek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Old French expecter, especter = Italian espettare, from Latin expectare, exspectare, look for, await, anticipate, expect, from ex, out, + spectare, look: see spectacle. Cf. aspect, inspect, prospect, respect, suspect.
  2. from expect, v.
 

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/ɛksˈpɛkt/
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