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Definitions for expected
ex·pect·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
expectedadjective
considered likely or probable to happen or arrive
"prepared for the expected attack"
Wiktionary
expectedadjective
Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur
The expected storm never arrived.
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expected
Expected generally refers to something that is considered likely or certain to happen, occur or be achieved. It's a belief or anticipation regardings a future event or outcome, potentially based on patterns, past experiences, assumptions or calculations. This term is often used in various contexts, including mathematics (expected value), computing, business and daily life.
Webster Dictionary
Expected
of Expect
Editors Contribution
expectedverb
Verb form of the word expect.
They expected justice and truth and they got it.
Submitted by MaryC on March 17, 2020
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'expected' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #631
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'expected' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1849
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'expected' in Adjectives Frequency: #577
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of expected in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of expected in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of expected in a Sentence
Iman's death came rather sooner than we had expected, but we knew that she was starting to suffer significant pain.
What was interesting is that you would expect photographers and maybe technology lovers to be interested in this, we were finding that people's grandmothers and uncles, real estate agents and dentists or doctors were the ones that were just as excited as the expected audience.
Ghislaine Maxwell is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life, i mean it was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was, like it was raining basically everywhere, I was just like grossed out from it but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey Epstein of sex crimes and Ghislaine Maxwell would have expected from me.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:
There will need to be some more flexibility shown by our Iranian partners if we are going to reach a deal, but, look, this is a negotiation, we always expected it would go right to the line and maybe beyond the line, so I think the serious negotiations are now getting under way and over the next week or so I hope we will start to see some real progress.
The data is moderately bullish with crude builds less than expected, coupled with strong gasoline demand driven by lower prices at the pump.
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