expects
ik-SPEKTS/ɪkˈspɛkts/
- 1Third-person singular simple present indicative of expect.
The company expects sales to climb sharply over the holidays.
He expects a refund after returning the damaged item.
Note
The form a singular subject takes in the present: she expects, the board expects, it expects. It carries every meaning of expect: predicting, requiring, counting something as due, even being pregnant. The verb can also go without an object, so a sentence may simply stop at it. The old meanings of waiting and staying are obsolete, so expects today always looks ahead to what is coming.
expects is a form of expect
expect, verb: To believe or predict that something is going to happen. Full entry
- Spelling
- expect → expects: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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