Definition of "expect"

“ […] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company

And temperatures are expected to keep rising.

2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns‎

England expects that every man will do his duty.

1805, Nelson, Horatio via Pasco, John, signal sent at the Battle of Trafalgar

I was born and immediately thrown into a society that makes its own rules, standards, and expectations. I am expected to behave. I am expected to deliver. I am expected to live up to the contrived standards of the society.

2015, Sajith Buvi, I Am 7.5 Billion Human, page 49

“You are pregnant?” he asked with shock in his voice. “Yes, Justin, I am expecting a child,”

2011, Eva Fischer-Dixon, The Bestseller

Let's in, and there expect their coming.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]

The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.

1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 24-25

I will 'expect until my change in death, / And answer at Thy call

1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]]