expecting
/ɛkˈspɛktɪŋ/ · verb
Meaning
- To predict or believe that something will happen
- To consider obligatory or required.
- To consider reasonably due.
- (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
- To wait for; to await.
- To wait; to stay.
- The process by which somebody expects something.
- Of a woman or female animal, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.
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