Usually means: Anticipation of an event occurring.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word expectation:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. expectation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. expectation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expectation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expectation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expectation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Expectation, expectation: Wordnik
  7. expectation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expectation: Wiktionary
  9. expectation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expectation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expectation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Expectation, expectation: Dictionary.com
  13. expectation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Expectation (Girl's Day album), Expectation (album), Expectation (epistemic), Expectation (mathematics), Expectation (song), Expectation (waltz), Expectation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Expectation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. expectation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. expectation: Rhymezone
  18. expectation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. expectation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. expectation: Free Dictionary
  21. expectation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. expectation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. expectation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. expectation: Glossary of research economics
  2. Expectation: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. expectation: Legal dictionary
  5. Expectation (mathematics): Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Expectation: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Expectation (mathematics), expectation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. expectation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expectation: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expectation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expectation: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Expectation: Dan's Poker
  2. Expectation: Poker Terms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See expectational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
noun:  That which is expected or looked for.
noun:  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.
noun:  The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
noun:  (statistics) The first moment; the expected value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
noun:  (statistics, colloquial) The arithmetic mean.
noun:  (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

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