Crossword clues for expectancy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expectance \Ex*pect"ance\, Expectancy \Ex*pect"an*cy\, n.
The act of expecting; expectation.
--Milton.-
That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope.
The expectancy and rose of the fair state.
--Shak.Estate in expectancy (Law), one the possession of which a person is entitled to have at some future time, either as a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one.
--Burrill.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Medieval Latin expectantia, from Latin expectans (see expectant) + -ancy. Related: Expectance.
Wiktionary
n. 1 expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something 2 the state of being expected 3 something expected or awaited
WordNet
n. pleasurable expectation [syn: anticipation]
something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development" [syn: anticipation]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "expectancy".
But if these muons are not sitting at rest in the laboratory and instead are traveling through a piece of equipment known as a particle accelerator that boosts them to just shy of light-speed, their average life expectancy as measured by scientists in the laboratory increases dramatically.
Not so the ansa phone It still has the power to raise a minute thrill of expectancy as you press the replay button.
As before, the beleaguered garrison hastened to the water front in anxious expectancy.
Mood-regulation expectancies as determinants of dysphoria in college students.
Getting involved with the fate of Boba Fett in any way was too dangerous- and the life expectancy of those who had put their trust in him was on the short side.
Julio Ortega was on the opto, and the mood in the restaurant was one of expectancy.
Fell a long, blissful silence, while Dan stared at the sea and permitted his brain to sink into a state off absolute quiescence, and Sooey Wan speculated on the expectancy of life in superannuated Chinamen in general and of himself in particular.
They regarded the Plumie with detachment, but Taine with a wary expectancy.
You have some Tylwyth Teg blood, so that means there is an opportunity to confer upon you fae life expectancy.
With Echo every sporting character was better known than his college tutor, and not a few kept an eye upon the boy, with hopes, no doubt, of hereafter benefiting by his inexperience, when, having got the whip-hand of his juvenile restrictions, he starts forth to the world a man of fashion and consequence, with an unencumbered property of fifteen thousand per annum, besides expectancies.
But strangely enough, amidst all this hideous expectancy, that question of the Sleght name bothers me more and more.
In Sector U3R, which is in close contact with the Stath, the life expectancy of a Festhold military commander is low.
Father Radulf arrived at a fast spring, his long robe hitched up to his knees with both hands, the thurifer galloping behind him with his expression a mixture of frightened concern and pleased expectancy, which Aylwin, at any other time, would have been anxious to record in one of his notebooks.
Here in the low-gravity environment of Triton, and with antiaging mechanisms wired centuries earlier into the human genome, life expectancy was around two centuries.
Maggie with excited touches tried to improve her setting of the table, aquiver with expectancy and suspense at the nearness of the meeting-- every nerve of audition strained to catch the first footfall upon the stairs.