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1.NounThe act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
2.NounThat which is expected or looked for.
An implicit obligation or duty held by another in someone's view."He struggled with his parents' expectations."
3.NounAn implicit obligation or duty held by another in someone's view."He struggled with his parents' expectations."
4.NounThe prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
5.NounThe value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
6.NounThe first moment; the expected value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
7.NounThe arithmetic mean.
8.NounThe leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.