Expectation meaning

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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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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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(statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
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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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A thing looked forward to.
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A looking for as due, proper, or necessary.
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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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The state of being expected.
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The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
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That which is expected or looked for.
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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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(colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
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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.

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

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

  • 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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