Synonym: anticipation, arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment, outlook, prospect. Similar words: affectation, delectation, expect, exploitation, expected, unexpected, expedition, inspection. Meaning: [‚ekspek'teɪʃn] n. 1. belief about (or mental picture of) the future 2. wishing with confidence of fulfillment 3. the feeling that something is about to happen 4. the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values.
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91. To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces— desire, belief, and expectation. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
92. How that expectation is calculated is certainly open to debate and criticism.
93. The little office was fairly bristling with tension and expectation.
94. He drew some comfort from the expectation that revision would be necessary inside a year or two.
95. He allowed this to continue in expectation of eventual compensation, but in April 1962 issued proceedings against the company.
96. Expectation of treatment by government and police also varies among educational levels.
97. And in this expectation, even were it to be misguided, there is certainly more human dignity.
98. They will have failed to maintain an adequate level of expectation about what life can be as non-parents.
99. A computer with an exposed unearthed metal chassis would fall short of the expectation of safety.
100. But what of the expectation of life of some one who has reached the age of forty?
101. I have every expectation that this chocolate team will melt in the glare of a warm Elland Road reception.
102. Their role has changed from turnkey to nurse but many grew up with the expectation that Rampton would be their career.
103. It was so brief, so out of expectation, that it almost didn't register.
104. Traders and steel users bought more than they needed in 1994 and early 1995, in expectation of a surge in prices.
105. This legitimate expectation was recognized only in public law and not in private law.
106. They can thereby create patient expectation of the level of demand that will be serviced.
107. This would indicate that the expectation of impotence in old age can play an important role in actually bringing it about.
108. Second, our expectation that all elderly are ill is clearly misplaced.
109. Letting the child play with food for a while without the expectation of eating it will reduce the tension around meal-times.
110. Thus a reasonable expectation for the strength of a material would be: which could hardly be much simpler.
110. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
111. A certain nervous expectation, incipient disappointment mitigated by professional Micawberism, is a more accurate description.
112. To offer the best was to set a general standard and to create a wider public expectation.
113. Note how in this case the tremolo creates an expectation of the forcefulness and dynamism which is to follow.
114. His method is rather to suggest ambivalences of meaning by subtle deviations from expectation.
115. Clearly explicit in many policies is an expectation of this.
116. His normal expectation was to live on the edge of starvation.
117. And they refrained from attacking for thirty-six hours in the expectation that Diem would comply with their demands.
118. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. Voltaire
119. Improvements in expectation of life are slight in the eighteenth century.
120. Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time. Paulo Coelho
More similar words: affectation, delectation, expect, exploitation, expected, unexpected, expedition, inspection, introspection, agitation, annotation, gestation, stationery, denotation, explanation, exploration, speculation, connotation, stationary, limitation, invitation, nation-state, orientation, consultation, deforestation, presentation, dissertation, confrontation, precipitation, argumentation.