Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who expects; one who waits for something or for another person. Also
expector .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who expects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
expects .
Etymologies
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expect + -er
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Examples
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This is the only job you are expecter to do stupid stuff……
Kevin James's Paul Blart: Mall Cop Full Trailer « FirstShowing.net 2008
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This process will change you into a believer, into an expecter, and when you become such, you will in due course become an achiever.
The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale 1980
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Whenever I see my Friend I speak to him; but the expecter, the man with the ears, is not he.
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Nor the wide wide world is to me so narrow * That I act expecter to this rejecter. '"[
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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