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View synonyms for expecting

expecting

/ ɪkˈspɛktɪŋ /

adjective

  1. informal.
    pregnant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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He’s also expecting a visit from his longtime co-star John Stamos later this week.

Ms Oates said there needed to be a "strong deterrent" for businesses that did not train staff properly, adding that "it's just not acceptable that people would go to a venue expecting to get help and not get the help that they need".

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You can’t launch a film in which a man obsessed with the power of religion turns out to be a murderous lunatic intent on lecturing two young women on choice without expecting some kind of reaction beyond “Hugh Grant in a career-best role!”

I wasn’t expecting to write such a sentence about an abstract and some might even say abstruse Sondheim musical that has had only one short-lived Broadway revival.

A representative for Jackson, known for the Disney series “Jessie” and “Bunk’d,” confirmed to The Times on Tuesday that the 22-year-old actor is expecting her first child.

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