Expectation definition

ĕkspĕk-tāshən
expectations
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A looking forward to; anticipation.
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The probability of the occurrence, duration, etc. of something, esp. as indicated by statistics.
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A thing looked forward to.
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Expectation is defined as believing that something is going to happen or believing that something should be a certain way.

An example of expectation is a belief that you will be getting promoted.

An example of expectation is a belief that you should behave as a proper lady or gentleman.

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The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
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(medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
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The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
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The state of being expected.
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The act of expecting.
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Prospects, especially of success or gain.
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That which is expected or looked for.
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Eager anticipation.

Eyes shining with expectation.

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Something expected.

A result that did not live up to expectations.

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The expected value of a random variable.
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The mean of a random variable.
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A looking for as due, proper, or necessary.
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The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
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(statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
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A reason or warrant for looking forward to something; prospect for the future, as of advancement or prosperity.
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(colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
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Noun

Singular:
expectation
Plural:
expectations

Origin of expectation

  • From Middle French expectation, from Latin expectatio, expectationem, from expectare.

    From Wiktionary

Expectation Sentence Examples

  • Your natural expectation would be that they would talk, at least as well as Scooby does.

  • Such an expectation of persecution is inexplicable from Nero's time.

  • All Europe awaited with eager expectation the results of so great an assembly.

  • The expectation of a Messianic restoration to the Holy Land has always been strong, if often latent, in the Jewish consciousness.

  • In 1769, in a letter to Dr Franklin, he wrote some observations on the expectation of lives, the increase of mankind, and the population of London, which were published in the Philosophical Transactions of that year; in May 1770 he communicated to the Royal Society a paper on the proper method of calculating the values of contingent reversions.

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