expectancy
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- noun
- /ɪkˈspɛktənsi/
- There is a growing expectancy among students for the school year to start on a positive note.
- expectancy of success
- outcome expectancy
- expectancy effects
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- No, that was a really, really long way of saying expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
- And he controlled because he asked, he controlled for expectancy.
- We've looked at dose effects, we've had controls for expectancy.
- It's violation of our expectancies of what's happening in life.
- So from identity, I want to go to expectancy.
- Number one, I I had no expectancy, no, I didn't know anyone who had consumed A purified Salvadorenais.
Examples
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Her expectancy for a job offer increased after the successful interview.
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Many people have high expectancy that the new technology will improve their lives.
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There was less of an expectancy on human life back then, for one thing.
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Throughout this whole period, a life expectancy was very poor.
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And my life expectancy would be a lot lower.
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So their average life expectancy has gone down by a year, a year.
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And an average life expectancy will move up.
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I came here when I was 14 with a life expectancy of 13.
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Speaker, life expectancy is actually beginning to fall.
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And that is we have parts of this country where life expectancy is actually in decline.
Synonyms
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A belief that something will happen in the future
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A feeling of eager waiting for something that will happen
A quiet, excited feeling in a place where people wait for something
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Etymology
Expectancy comes from the Latin parts ex- ('out') and spectare ('to look'), the same root as inspect. So expectancy is like 'looking out' for something, the feeling of waiting for something to happen.