reckon on
phrasal verb
reckoned on; reckoning on; reckons on
: to expect (something) to happen : to plan on (something)
The train was an hour late, which was something we hadn't reckoned on.
She reckoned on winning the election.
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Fred Prouser—Reuters Five years after the #MeToo movement swept corporate America, a landmark trial scheduled to start this week could have kicked off a new round of reckoning on Wall Street.
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Maria Aspan, Fortune, 2 May 2023
What today’s job numbers show is that the Biden economy is proving much harder to push into recession than the Fed reckoned on.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
Expect a price rise of around 10 percent versus the 720S (reckon on about $340,000) when the first cars reach showrooms in Q4 of 2023.
—Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2023
Maria Aspan, Fortune, 2 May 2023
What today’s job numbers show is that the Biden economy is proving much harder to push into recession than the Fed reckoned on.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
Expect a price rise of around 10 percent versus the 720S (reckon on about $340,000) when the first cars reach showrooms in Q4 of 2023.
—Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2023
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“Reckon on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reckon%20on. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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