| 单词 | in expectancy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin expectancy Phrases P1. expectancy of life: = life expectancy n. at life n. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1752 Gentleman & Lady's Palladium 35 One Error herein..will influence the Expectancy of Life at several other Ages. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Life Annuities The measure of the value or expectancy of life, depends on the proportion of the number of persons that die, out of a given number, in the time proposed. 1897 Atlantic Reporter 35 755/1 The case does not show the age of the father, and therefore there was nothing to indicate his probable expectancy of life. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. at Risk Superstandard risk, insurance on the life of one whose habits or heredity or the state of whose health increases his expectancy of life. 2001 T. McMichael Human Frontiers, Environments & Dis. (2003) vii. 193 This figure refers not to the average age of adult death, but to the average expectancy of life at birth. P2. in expectancy. a. In a state or condition of expecting or being expected. ΚΠ 1592In expectancie [see sense 1]. 1610 R. Vaughan Most Approved Water-workes sig. I4v The Table [is] perpetually furnished to intertaine forty of those Contributers dayly in expectancy. 1716 J. Digby tr. A. de Wicquefort Embassador & his Functions i. xxv. 222/1 The King of the Romans was only a Titular King, and Emperor in Expectancy. 1777 E. Burke Let. 5 Nov. in Corr. (1961) III. 400 A practical reputation, to do any good, must be in possession, not in expectancy. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. iii. 37 Miss Toms, the great heiress in expectancy. 1867 R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower I. xi. 155 Happy, partly in present fruition, far more in expectancy. 1996 J. E. Dittes Driven by Hope ix. 138 To live as a son is to live not in sure capture of sure goal but in expectancy. b. Law. Of property: expected to be inherited, esp. as remainder or reversion. ΚΠ 1650 Act 13 Aug. 986 Any Estate of Freehold or Inheritance..; or other Estate either in Possession, Reversion, Remainder, Expectancy or future Interest. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xxxi. 482 The bankrupt..is bound..to make a full discovery of all his estate and effects, as well in expectancy as possession. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxii. 203 The whole capital which Nicholas found himself entitled to, either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy. 1920 Harvard Law Rev. 33 528 An abstract direction inserted in a will that a remainder shall not, while it is still an interest in expectancy, pass to strangers, would of course be futile. 1997 Eng. Hist. Rev. 112 1115 Clinton was to hold these other properties in expectancy, pending the deaths of..the life holders of the lands involved. < as lemmas |
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