Usually means: Anticipation or expectation of something.
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  1. expectative: Merriam-Webster
  2. expectative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. expectative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. expectative: Wordnik
  5. expectative: Wiktionary
  6. expectative: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Expectative, expectative: Dictionary.com
  8. Expectative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Expectative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. expectative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Expectative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. expectative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. expectative: FreeDictionary.org
  14. expectative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (expectative)

adjective:  Of or pertaining to an expectation.
adjective:  (canon law) Of or pertaining to the reversion of a benefice.
noun:  (canon law) The anticipatory grant of an ecclesiastical benefice, not vacant at the moment but which will become so, regularly, on the death of its present incumbent.
noun:  (non-native speakers' English) An expectation.

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