expectorate

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But according to the insta-polls, the electorate, as opposed to what I once called the expectorate, seems to have concluded fairly clearly that Biden "won," possibly because what the electorate was expecting was a debate between two candidates for Vice-President, not the raw materials for some arcane calculation of who exceeded whose expectations.

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  1. transitive verb To eject from the mouth; spit.
  2. transitive verb To cough up and eject by spitting.
  3. intransitive verb To spit.

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  • Slide 15: I nfection, risk for spread / reactivation Instruct patient to cough / sneeze and expectorate into tissue and to refrain from spitting. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Note ability to expectorate mucus / cough effectively, document character, amount of sputum, presence of hemoptysis. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Slide 12: Nursing Care  Effective securing of the ventilator circuit  S uctioning of the airways is necessary and ET tube will ensure that because the patient cannot expectorate disconnection and the risk of self - normally. extubation are reduced. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • But according to the insta-polls, the electorate, as opposed to what I once called the expectorate, seems to have concluded fairly clearly that Biden "won," possibly because what the electorate was expecting was a debate between two candidates for Vice-President, not the raw materials for some arcane calculation of who exceeded whose expectations. —  The Richmond Democrat
  • Then they gave it up, and passed a law making it a statutory offense, with heavy fines, for any one to "expectorate" on the sidewalk or anywhere else where the saliva could be swept up by the trains of the women of nearly all classes who followed the fashion. —  As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home
 

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  1. Latin expectorāre, expectorāt-, to drive from the chest : ex-, ex- + pectus, pector-, chest.

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  1. from Latin expectoratus, past participle of expectorare (later Italian espettorare = Spanish Portuguese expectorar = French expectorer), only fig. banish from the mind, but literally (as in modern use) expel from the breast, from ex, out of, + pectus (pector-), the breast: see pectoral.
 

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/ɛksˈpɛktəreɪt/
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