"expectations" in the noun sense
1. expectation, outlook, prospect
belief about (or mental picture of) the future
2. anticipation, expectation
anticipating with confidence of fulfillment
3. expectation
the feeling that something is about to happen
4. arithmetic mean, first moment, expectation, expected value
the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
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