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单词 expectancy
释义 ex·pect·an·cy
\-tənsē, -si\ noun
or ex·pect·ance \-n(t)s\
(plural expectancies or expectances)
Etymology: Medieval Latin expectantia, exspectantia, from Latin expectant-, exspectant-, expectans, exspectans + -ia -y
1. archaic
 a. : the act of waiting
 b. : the state of waiting
2.
 a. : the act or action of anticipating
  < the thirst did feel abatement of its edge e'en from expectance — H.F.Cary >
 b. : the state of anticipating
  < suspicion … gave way to a more submissive expectancy — George Eliot >
3. : the state of being expected
 < a large fortune in expectancy >
4.
 a.
  (1) : something that is expected : the object of expectation or hope
   < each of us had come … with his own purposes and expectancies — Esther Warner >
  (2) : the expected amount (as of the number of years of life) based on statistical probability — compare life expectancy
 b. archaic : something that gives rise to expectations
  < the expectancy and rose of the fair state — Shakespeare >
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