The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.]
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            Let's in, and there expect their coming. --Shak.
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   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.
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            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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Expect \Ex*pect"\, v. t.
   To wait; to stay. [Obs.] --Sandys.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Expect \Ex*pect"\, n.
   Expectation. [Obs.] --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

expect
    v 1: regard something as probable or likely; "The meteorologists
         are expecting rain for tomorrow" [syn: expect,
         anticipate]
    2: consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our
       secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these
       children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their
       lessons" [syn: ask, require, expect]
    3: look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were
       expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a
       promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" [syn: expect,
       look, await, wait]
    4: consider reasonable or due; "I'm expecting a full explanation
       as to why these files were destroyed"
    5: look forward to the birth of a child; "She is expecting in
       March"
    6: be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are
       expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his
       child" [syn: have a bun in the oven, bear, carry,
       gestate, expect]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

122 Moby Thesaurus words for "expect":
   account as, anticipate, apprehend, approach, aspire to, assume,
   await, bank on, be afraid, be destined, be fated, be imminent,
   be to be, be to come, believe, come, come on, conceive, conclude,
   confide, conjecture, consider, contemplate, count, count on,
   daresay, deduce, deem, demand, desire, divine, draw near, draw on,
   dread, dream, envisage, envision, esteem, estimate, face, fancy,
   feel, feel confident, foreknow, foresee, foretell, gather, grant,
   guess, harbor the hope, have a hunch, have an idea,
   have an impression, have an inkling, have in mind, have in view,
   have the idea, hold, hold as, hope, hope against hope,
   hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, imagine, infer,
   judge, keep in view, lean upon, let, let be, lie ahead,
   live in hopes, look, look for, look forward to, look upon as, loom,
   maintain, near, need, nurture the hope, opine, plan, plot, predict,
   prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, project, prophesy,
   provisionally accept, reckon, reckon on, regard, rely on, repute,
   require, rest assured, say, sense, set down as, suppose, surmise,
   suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be,
   think, threaten, trow, trust, understand, view as, wait for, want,
   ween, wish



The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

expect

    A Unix tool written in Tcl and a script
   language for automating the operation of interactive
   applications such as telnet, FTP, passwd, fsck,
   rlogin, tip, etc..  Expect can feed input to other
   programs and perform pattern matching on their output.  It
   is also useful for testing these applications.  By adding
   Tk, you can also wrap interactive applications in X11
   GUIs.

   (http://expect.nist.gov/).

   ["expect: Scripts for Controlling Interactive Tasks", Don
   Libes, Comp Sys 4(2), U Cal Press Journals, Nov 1991].

   (1997-06-09)