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How to pronounce expectations in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms outlook, prospect
Type of belief
Has types apprehension, anticipation, expectancy, foretaste, hope, promise, misgiving, possibility
Derivation expect
Type Words
Synonyms arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment
Type of mean value, mean
Type Words
Synonyms anticipation
Type of hopefulness
Derivation expect
Type Words
Type of feeling
Has types anticipation, expectancy
Derivation expect

Examples of expectations

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In effect, workers will pay medical inflation costs if they exceed expectations.
From the thenewstribune.com
All of the pressure pretty much comes from myself to live up to my expectations.
From the news-journalonline.com
Those expectations include paying the price in the weight room in the offseason.
From the stltoday.com
His likely reward will be running a destitute country, under lofty expectations.
From the online.wsj.com
The Bank of Mexico also cited improved expectations for global growth this year.
From the online.wsj.com
Today marks start No. 4, and expectations, if anything, have only spiked upward.
From the kansas.com
The older you get and the more experience you have, the higher the expectations.
From the sportingnews.com
These forward-looking statements are based on Vermillion's current expectations.
From the foxbusiness.com
Expectations may be low, but America's housing industry continues to disappoint.
From the forbes.com
More examples
  • Belief about (or mental picture of) the future
  • Anticipation: anticipating with confidence of fulfillment
  • The feeling that something is about to happen
  • Arithmetic mean: the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
  • In the case of uncertainty, expectation is what is considered the most likely to happen. An expectation, which is a belief that is centred on the future, may or may not be realistic. A less advantageous result gives rise to the emotion of disappointment. ...
  • In probability theory and statistics, the expected value (or expectation value, or mathematical expectation, or mean, or first moment) of a random variable is the integral of the random variable with respect to its probability measure.
  • (Expectations (Keith Jarrett album)) Expectations is a 1971 recording by pianist, saxophonist and composer Keith Jarrett, released on Columbia Records. ...
  • The act or state of expecting or 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 ...
  • (Expectations (prognosis)) Some arthritis-related disorders can be completely cured with treatment. Others are chronic, or long-term and treatment aims at controlling the pain and minimizing joint damage. Chronic arthritis frequently goes in and out of remission.