See Also: expectancy(dictionary)
expectancy(dictionary)
Life expectancy(medicine)
Life Expectancy(money)
Life expectancy(finance)
Life expectancy(health)
life expectancy(dictionary)
EXPECTANCY, estates(law)

expectancy (iou)



expectancy noun. E17.
[Latin ex(s)pectantia, from ex(s)pectant-: see EXPECTANT, -ANCY.]
(An) expectation of a coming event; (an) expectant attitude. E17.
O. Henry Sick with expectancy of the news he feared. D. Parker There was an air of expectancy about them..as of those who wait for a curtain to rise.
b. An object of hope or expectation. arch. E17.
Wordsworth The Nation hailed Their great expectancy.
The extent to which an expectation may reasonably be entertained; the prospective chance of an event. E17.
life expectancy: see LIFE noun.
Chiefly Law. The condition of being expected. Usu. in in expectancy. M17.
Burke A practical reputation, to do any good, must be in possession, not in expectancy.
The position of being a prospective heir. E19.
What a person is entitled to expect; spec. a prospective inheritance. M19.