supposed to
Idioms-
Intended to; also, believed to, expected to. For example, This pill is supposed to relieve your pain , or You're supposed to be my partner . [Early 1300s]
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Required to, as in He is supposed to call home . [Mid-1800s]
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not supposed to . Not permitted to, as in You're not supposed to smoke in here .
Example Sentences
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The FJC’s manual is supposed to be a neutral guide for non-expert judges on scientific matters.
No images have been released in public of his corpse and a state funeral that was supposed to have been held earlier this month has been postponed indefinitely.
From Barron's
Free cash flow, which is essentially cash from operations minus capital spending, is supposed to be a pure metric of a firm’s value creation.
From Barron's
Stock indexes and the funds based on them are supposed to serve investors.
"If you look across the year, you see many, many examples of when there's clearly a line that they're not supposed to fish across at different time periods. We don't know why."
From Barron's
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