Translation of expect – English–Hindi dictionary

expect

verb

/ɪkˈspekt/ us

/ɪkˈspekt/

expect verb (THINK)

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B1 [ T ]

to think or believe something will happen, or someone will arrive

अपेक्षा करना, आशा करना

We are expecting a lot of applicants for the job. हम नौकरी हेतु बहुत से आवेदकों की आशा कर रहे हैं।

[ + (that) ] I expect (that) you'll find it somewhere in your bedroom. मुझे आशा है कि आपको यह अपने बेडरूम/शयनकक्ष में ही कहीं मिलेगा।

I expect (that) he'd have left anyway.

[ + to infinitive ] He didn't expect to see me. उस (पुरुष) ने मुझे देखने/मिलने की अपेक्षा नहीं की थी।

The financial performance of the business is fully expected (= almost certain) to improve.

We were half expecting you not to come back.

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I don't expect we'll have any more trouble from him.
Gosh, I didn't expect to see you here!
I'd expected to put weight on when I gave up smoking, but I didn't.
Our department expects to make five new appointments this year alone.
This is your captain speaking. We expect to be landing at London Heathrow in an hour's time.

expect verb (DEMAND)

B2 [ T ]

to think that someone should behave in a particular way or do a particular thing

अपेक्षा, आशा, उम्मीद करना या रखना

I expect punctuality from my students. मैं अपने विद्यार्थियों से समय की पाबंदी का पालन करने की अपेक्षा रखता/रखती हूँ।

[ + to infinitive ] Borrowers are expected to (= should) return books on time. उधार/किराये पर किताबें लेने वालों से उम्मीद की जाती है कि वे पुस्तकें समय पर लौटाएँगे।

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We expect these practices to cease forthwith.
Some people expect instant gratification.
You shouldn't expect others to do your work for you.
It annoys me that she just expects us to help.
The governors and the education authority expect all pupils to attend school assembly.

expect verb (BE PREGNANT)

be expecting (a baby)

to be pregnant

गर्भवती होना, उम्मीद से होना

She shouldn't be lifting those boxes if she's expecting. अगर वह गर्भवती है, तो उसे ये बक्से नहीं उठाने चाहिए।

Kate and Dom are expecting a baby. केट और डॉम एक शिशु/संतान की उम्मीद कर रहे हैं।

Grammar

Expect, hope or wait?

We use expect to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect in the following main patterns: …

Expect

We use expect to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect in the following main patterns: …

Hope

We use hope when we do not know whether something will happen or not but we want it to happen. We use hope in the following patterns: …

Wait

We use wait when we refer to letting time pass because we are expecting that something is going to happen. We use wait in the following main patterns: …

Expect, hope or wait: typical errors

We don’t use wait or wait for to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect: …

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Examples of expect

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We expect these committees will not exhibit a strong tendency to fall in the majority party's target area on its side of the chamber median.

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This is as might be expected physically, presumably foretelling the onset of a higher mode as predicted by the airfoil model.

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To the extent that conversations are implicitly expected or planned to co-occur with dinners, coffee breaks, or other scheduled activities, they are also temporally constrained.

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Shareholders expect returns on investments in pharmaceutical and biotechnologic companies.

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The constant represents the expected project yield in capital (per unit invested), net of monitoring costs.

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Thus, even if we were measuring the correct symptoms, we could expect that our purely categorical disease would be hidden within a continuous symptom distribution.

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Lower intake of medication might be expected to cause more severe psychotic symptoms.

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Thereby, a continuous supply of urea and amino acids to an open reaction system would be expected to overcome this limitation.

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Translations of expect

in Chinese (Traditional)

想, 預料，預計, 期待…

Translation of expect – English–Hindi dictionary

expect verb (THINK)

expect verb (DEMAND)

expect verb (BE PREGNANT)

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