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?

1. 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. Cloud Live:

   Revenues from our restaurant business are still falling, our recycling business has fallen short of expectations and the new media and big data (operations) haven't had any contributions yet.

2. Americo Mello:

   The Christmas get-together may be that one time a year when you are forced to interact with unpleasant family members, and your past history with those family members, too, which maybe is not a positive one, but there are a few things you can do to manage the expectations and stresses that come with the holiday get-together.

3. Dejan Ilijevski:

   All available news, information, and expectations have already been priced in, says Dejan Ilijevski, investment manager and president of Sabela Capital Markets in Munster, Indiana. The only information that's not priced in is tomorrow's news, and news by its inherent definition is impossible to predict.

4. Mitsushige Akino:

   The headline was weak, but the market is shifting to expectations for more measures.

5. Saso Stanovnik:

   The profit and sales figures are in line with expectations so they will not have a significant impact on Krka's share price, but on the other hand the situation in Russia is likely to remain difficult this year, which is why Krka's share is not likely to increase significantly in the coming months and will thus remain around 60 euros.

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