Usually means: Anticipating an event or outcome.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word expecting:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. expecting: Merriam-Webster
  2. expecting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. expecting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Expecting, expecting: Wordnik
  5. expecting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. expecting: Wiktionary
  7. Expecting, expecting: Dictionary.com
  8. expecting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Expecting (Angel), Expecting (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Expecting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Expecting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. expecting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. expecting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. expecting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expecting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expecting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expecting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expecting: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expecting: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (expecting)

adjective:  (not comparable) Of a woman, female animal, or couple, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.
adjective:  Expectant.
noun:  The process by which somebody expects something.

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