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What does expect mean?

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Verb
  1. 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).
  2. To consider obligatory or required.
  3. To consider reasonably due.
  4. (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
  6. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.
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