If you have great expectations, you think something good will come your way, but if keep your expectations low, you won't risk being disappointed. Expectation can also describe something that is supposed to happen, like a teacher whose expectation is that everyone comes to class prepared.
- the act or the state of expecting; anticipation. 2. something expected. 3. Often, expectations. a prospect of future benefit or fortune: to have great expectations. 4. the degree of probability that something will occur: There is little expectation that she will come. 5. mathematical expectation. 6. the state of being expected.
Often, expectations. a prospect of future good or profit: to have great expectations. the degree of probability that something will occur: There is little expectation that he will come.
A summary is a brief statement or restatement of main points, esp. as a conclusion to a work: a summary of a chapter. A brief is a concise statement, usu. of the main points of a legal case: The attorney filed a brief.
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