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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hoped-for
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But a head must in the end tolerate something less than the hoped-for whole being achieved.
▪ I was in hospital when the desperately hoped-for call came at 10.30 one Monday night.
▪ In fact, fears were unfounded and the hoped-for benefit was achieved.
▪ It was the sort of price any commander had to pay for hoped-for victory.
▪ It will raise fresh worries for the Government that the much hoped-for consumer spending upturn remains beyond the horizon.
▪ Other hoped-for measures include tax breaks for industry to encourage investment and more cash for building projects.
▪ The experiment is bringing many hoped-for outcomes, as well as many unintended ones.
▪ Then, in May 1823, the hoped-for pardon arrived and he was able to resume a normal life at Kinloch.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hoped-for

hoped-for \hoped-for\ adj. expected and desired. Contrasted with unexpected.

Syn: anticipated, awaited(predicate), prospective.

Wiktionary
hoped-for

a. (alternative spelling of hoped for English)

WordNet
hoped-for

adj. expected hopefully [syn: anticipated, awaited(p)]

Usage examples of "hoped-for".

I tried to put Elsa Lee out of my thoughts, as she had gone out of my life, and, receiving the hoped-for hospital appointment at that time, I tried to make up by hard work for a happiness that I had not lost because it had never been mine.

It watches the harbors to intercept any who, doubting the word of the priests, essay to flee to some hoped-for land beyond the seas.

Barristers certainly never get their law books from Mudie, and Lopez at once knew that his hoped-for father-in-law had been reading a novel.

So the dimers represented a possible on-off switch of the hoped-for engrain.

So the dimers represented a possible on-off switch of the hoped-for engram.

By the next day, she no longer had Brillo Pad hair or straight hair either, which had been the hoped-for result.

His spirit was sunk low, for he saw the hoped-for peace was all lost, wisdom burned away in the flames of Chakthi's rage, and he foresaw chaos descending when the People stood in great need of common sense and common purpose.

If the hex sign and arrow could be believed, it would bring them to the hoped-for Quislon border.

There, seismic surveys of oil exploratory companies in the 1920s had turned up a number of salt domes, although precious few of them sat atop the hoped-for reservoirs of crude.

These were emotions so bitter as to dominate all other thought: feuds which were to the participants as water to a fish, vengeances and hoped-for vengeances so sweet as to obsess the mind.