Expect \Ex*pect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Expecting}.] [L. expectatum, to look out for, await, expect; ex + out spectare to look at. See {Spectacle}.] 1. To wait for; to await. [Obs.]
Let's in, and there expect their coming. --Shak.
2. 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); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated. ``Good: I will expect you.'' --Shak. ``Expecting thy reply.'' --Shak.
The Somersetshire or yellow regiment . . . was expected to arrive on the following day. --Macaulay.
Syn: To anticipate; look for; await; hope.
Usage: To {Expect}, {Think}, {Believe}, {Await}. Expect is a mental act and has aways a reference to the future, to some coming event; as a person expects to die, or he expects to survive. Think and believe have reference to the past and present, as well as to the future; as I think the mail has arrived; I believe he came home yesterday, that he is he is at home now. There is a not uncommon use of expect, which is a confusion of the two; as, I expect the mail has arrived; I expect he is at home. This misuse should be avoided. Await is a physical or moral act. We await that which, when it comes, will affect us personally. We expect what may, or may not, interest us personally. See {Anticipate}.
Expect \Ex*pect"\, v. t. To wait; to stay. [Obs.] --Sandys.
Expect \Ex*pect"\, n. Expectation. [Obs.] --Shak.
Margo Vignola at Salomon Brothers doesn't expect a stock ownership plan for American Medical.
On average, the London motorist can expect to pick up only one parking ticket for every 50 infringements.
Brokers only expect the market to worsen, as One Peachtree Center and two other large towers add 3.6 million square feet, or 31% more space, to the market by 1993.
It's possible, but there is no reason to expect such an outcome.
While many analysts expect further short-term declines, few expect prices to dive to the low teens.
While many analysts expect further short-term declines, few expect prices to dive to the low teens.
The events in Poland are being viewed nervously in Prague, where government officials expect demonstrations Monday to commemorate the Soviet invasion in 1968.
It is unreasonable to expect weapons manufacturers to pay a larger share of tooling costs, for example, if the services cannot guarantee sufficient annual sales.
Stanley Chesley, the lead lawyer for the residents, has said lawyers expect the monitoring will last 30 to 40 years and track such things as lung cancer and kidney diseases usually associated with uranium pollution.
Pan Am officials have said they expect the British eventually to give their approval.
Jim Van Messel, co-executive producer of "Entertainment Tonight," says the show hasn't heard yet from any agents or lawyers offering to sell a client's grisly tale, but doesn't expect to wait long.
Few if any forecasters expect output to fall.
If charged and convicted of the lesser crime of endangering flight safety, they could receive a maximum of seven years in jail. However, the presiding judge of the court in Taiwan's capital, Taipei, said the hijackers could expect leniency.
Union officials at those plants took the news in stride. An official of the United Auto Workers in Dubuque said workers expect the company to make an attractive early retirement offer.
Scientists now expect the spacecraft to be in and out of touch until controllers can send it new instructions on how to properly aim at Earth, he said.
"I expect the consumer will retrench," said Mr. Kahan of Kleinwort Benson.
While most analysts expect modest earnings growth this fiscal year, they are enthusiastic about the future, largely due to the prospects for Bombardier's 50-seat Regional Jet, or RJ.
The company's chief executive officer, Eric Parker, said Trafalgar doesn't expect to be greatly affected by the recent turmoil on financial markets.
Consumers should expect to see ads from automakers whose vehicles ranked high on the survey.
"His people would expect it (his return) and he is just the sort of person who would do it," Mrs. Thatcher said of Gorbachev, with whom she has a good rapport.
Because voice messaging can forward calls to be recorded if a subscriber's line is busy, company officials say they expect the new service will eliminate the need for answering machines, which do not have that capability.
Nonetheless, the company continues to expect that 1990 earnings per share will be in the range of $2.80, Moritz said.
Manufacturing industry's order books are at their best levels since mid-1990 and manufacturers expect to increase output over the next four months.
'They did not expect to be required to make substantial additional payments to British Coal as a condition for exercising their petroleum licences.' The operators are lobbying the DTI hard to resolve the uncertainties and encourage methane production.
'The USDA is a bureaucracy, and we expect there will be a strong cast of supporting players,' Mr West said.
"Don't expect somebody to come up and say they saw them making the devices," Powell said.
He said the independent power segment could grow to provide as much as 50% of near-term generation capacity, adding: "We expect to supply a significant share of this market."
He added that "just as our investment managers are taking a contrarian view and perhaps going into the market, so our oil people expect the price of oil to go down."
As that happens, though, we expect that history will see the entire episode as a turning point in the development of our publications, of Singapore and of the freedom of information in an internationally wired and increasingly interdependent world.