Definition of "count on"

count on

verb
third-person singular simple present counts on, present participle counting on, simple past and past participle counted on
1. (transitive) To rely on, trust, or expect.
  Quotations
  He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 8, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
  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
  The trial will be targeted at Russians as well as an international audience — and the organizers will be counting on extensive coverage in the world press.
  2022 June 23, Francine Hirsch, “Russia is counting on the media to spread propaganda about show trials”, in The Washington Post‎, retrieved 14 December 2022