expectation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A belief that something will happen or that someone will do something.

   There is a general expectation that prices will rise next year.

2. 2
   noun

   A hope or standard that you want someone or something to meet.

   The new restaurant lived up to all our expectations.

From Middle French expectation, from Latin exspectātiō, from exspectō (“expect”). By surface analysis, expect + -ation. Displaced native Old English wēn.

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