0 present participle of expect --
1 to think or believe something will happen, or someone will arrive: --
All parents of small children get tired. It's to be expected.
We were half expecting you not to come back.
The financial performance of the business is fully expected (= almost certain) to improve.
[ + to infinitive ] He didn't expect to see me.
[ + (that) ] I expect (that) you'll find it somewhere in your bedroom.
We are expecting a lot of applicants for the job.
2 to think that someone should behave in a particular way or do a particular thing: --
[ + to infinitive ] Borrowers are expected to (= should) return books on time.
I expect punctuality from my students.
3 to be pregnant: --
This is the type that the continuation process is expecting on that port.
The marginalising of group-living is the price paid for expecting a quality professional service from the least paid and least qualified workforce.
After a meteorite fall, people scour the country, expecting to see something strange.
This could entail support for positions that appeared inconsistent to someone expecting linearity within a preconceived ideological framework.
Alternatively, while generally expecting a decrease of lipid stores due to energy drain upon infection, an increase might also occur.
Four per cent were still out-patients and 5 % were still expecting further surgery for their accident injuries at 3 years.
Here k is invoked in two contexts, one expecting an integer, the other expecting an integer list.
For example, a patient may state that she has given up hope for recovery and is expecting to die within a month.
