expectation
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
A strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.
polysemousFFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012
Senses
Wordset Dictionary
belief about (or mental picture of) the future
Wordset Dictionary
the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
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the feeling that something is about to happen
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anticipating with confidence of fulfillment
Classifications
Entity Type
Requirement72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- anticipationarithmetic meanexpected valuefirst momentprospect
- alternatephrasing
- Expectation
- plural
- expectations
- possessive
- expectation's
- pluralpossessive
- expectations'