Definition of "reckon on" [reckon on]

• To count on or depend on. (verb)
• To plan on; to expect. (verb)

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• "Thus, for example, a family called Wedel had so many branches that in the sixteenth century it could at one time reckon on two hundred men among its own members capable of bearing arms."
• "The Directory replied that he must not reckon on a diversion in Germany, and that the armies of the Sambre-et-Meuse and the Rhine were not to pass that river."
• "Yes, I was jealous of Vera; yes, I was planning to marry her to Bolshintsov, so as to get her away from you and from myself; yes, I took advantage of my position, of my being older, to find out her secret and -- of course I didn't reckon on that -- I betrayed myself."