Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or state of expecting; expectation.
- noun The state of being expected.
- noun Something expected.
- noun An expected amount calculated on the basis of actuarial data.
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- noun
expectation oranticipation ; the state ofexpecting something - noun the state of being
expected - noun something expected or awaited
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- noun an expectation
- noun something expected (as on the basis of a norm)
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Examples
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University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, who has studied health inequalities and reproductive patterns, points out that healthy life expectancy is short for African Americans and women depend on extended family networks for support.
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University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, who has studied health inequalities and reproductive patterns, points out that healthy life expectancy is short for African Americans and women depend on extended family networks for support.
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There's too much of … what I call an expectancy culture of things being provided.
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Because of that, there's what we call the expectancy effect.
Thestar.com - Home Page Kevin McGran 2011
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At the extremes, the gap in life expectancy is wide: There is a nearly 18-year difference in life expectancy between black men and Asian/Pacific Islander women (69.4 vs. 86.9 years).
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Unraveling the Latino Paradox M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2010
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"Doing screening tests on patients whose life expectancy is extremely limited because of cancer is just not a cost-effective thing to do," said Dr. Allen Lichter, CEO of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, who wasn't involved in the research.
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Life expectancy is only longer because fewer babies die; people who reach 65 live about the same number of years as they used to.
Dave Johnson: Eight False Things the Public "Knows" Prior to Election Day Dave Johnson 2010
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Calculating life expectancy is a tough task that requires analyzing extensive information about how people died and how old they were, as well as statistical modeling to predict how long people born today will live if current trends continue.
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The increase in life expectancy is very small by comparison.
Mark Weisbrot: French Protesters Have It Right: No Need to Raise Retirement Age Mark Weisbrot 2010
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If he's extremely obese and a smoker, his life expectancy is 60, a difference of 21 years.
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But most of these have traditionally been psychological in nature, focusing on mechanisms like expectancy — the set of beliefs that a person brings into treatment — and the kind of conditioning that Ivan Pavlov first described more than a century ago.
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