Of or pertaining to an expectation. / (canon law) Of or pertaining to the reversion of a benefice.

(canon law) The anticipatory grant of an ecclesiastical benefice, not vacant at the moment but which will become so, regularly, on the death of its present incumbent.

plural of expectative

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. / That which is expected or looked for.

(transitive, intransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen / To consider obligatory or required. / To consider reasonably due.

Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur

simple past tense and past participle of expect

present participle of expect

Of a woman, female animal, or couple, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.

The process by which somebody expects something.