expectation
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Synonyms: execration, spectation, expectoration, expectations, expectative, exportation, inexpectation, excecation, exfetation, unexpectation, expeditation
Antonyms: execration, spectation, expectoration, expectations, expectative, exportation, inexpectation, excecation, exfetation, unexpectation, expeditation
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Noun
- {{sid|en|state}} The act or state of [[expect]]ing or [[look forward|looking forward]] to an event as about to happen.
- That which is expected or looked for.
- 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.
- The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
- {{lb|en|statistics}} The first moment; the [[expected value]]; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
- {{lb|en|statistics|colloquial}} The [[arithmetic mean]].
- {{lb|en|medicine|rare}} The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.<!-- Example sentence please?: "(usage: "expectant management", "tincture of time")" -->
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