Expectation Definition

ĕkspĕk-tāshən
expectations
noun
expectations
The act of expecting.
American Heritage
A looking forward to; anticipation.
Webster's New World
A looking for as due, proper, or necessary.
Webster's New World
A thing looked forward to.
Webster's New World
The state of being expected.
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Other Word Forms of Expectation

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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Words Starting With

EEXEXP

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NONION

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