count on
verbUS /kaʊnʌn/ · /kaʊntʌn/
1
To rely on, trust, or expect.
- Don't count on being able to get back into the building after 5pm.
- Can we count on you to help out?
4 more examples
- He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.1999, Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor:
- Or perhaps something unusual occurred in the current period that you can't count on to repeat itself.2001, Builder's Guide to Accounting:
- "Hopefully you can count on them for a long period of time. Quite frankly, not often do you give those players up."2009, “Going green: Young talent cuts costs, builds continuity”, in USA Today:
- Synonyms
- bank on, hang one's hat on, count in, reckon on