Definitions for expectations
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1. Expectations

   Expectations is a 1972 album by the pianist, saxophonist and composer Keith Jarrett, released on Columbia Records. In addition to Jarrett, musicians on the recording include Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Sam Brown, Airto Moreira, as well as brass and string sections whose members are not credited in the album information. Expectations was produced by George Avakian. Expectations was the only recording Jarrett made under his own name on Columbia Records. Jarrett had been a member of Miles Davis' band, which recorded for Columbia, until shortly before making Expectations; the label subsequently signed him to his own contract, but subsequently broke the contract by dropping Jarrett after the record's release.

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1. expectations

   Plural noun of the word expectation.

   The people had expressed the expectations for a just, fair society where wealth is created and distributed equally across all sectors and people in society.

   Submitted by MaryC on July 24, 2016  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'expectations' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3036

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'expectations' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4320

How to pronounce expectations?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of expectations in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of expectations in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of expectations in a Sentence

1. Tim Pagett:

   The incumbents will have to respond to it (aggressive fee pricing), but virtual banks still have to make money, while they don't have to carry the cost of physical branch networks, they do actually have to carry cost and they do have shareholders who have certain return expectations.

2. Christopher Finazzo:

   We wanted to make sure we had something that lived up to the expectations of the Whopper, we've done sort of a blind taste test with our franchisees, with people in the office, with my partners on the executive team, and virtually nobody can tell the difference.

3. Siddharth Astir:

   An inquisitive mind is the only means of travelling from the world of expectations to Reality

4. Svein Moxnes Harfjeld:

   Continued oil demand and longer transportation distances combined with no fleet growth should support our expectations for 2015 on average to be better than 2014, if floating storage takes place, this will be an additional benefit.

5. Eric Handler:

   I'd rather see them be conservative and beat expectations than suffer through what they did several years back.

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