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expectational

expectational adjective: relating to expectation.

Adjective

expectational (not comparable)

  1. Relating to expectation.
    • Accelerationism was the most fundamental transformation of the Phillips approach into an expectational format. It hypothesized that inflation will become increasingly rapid in any maintained situation in which unemployment lies below some critical, or “natural,” rate.1975, Arthur Melvin Okun, “Inflation: Its Mechanics and Welfare Costs”, in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, volume 6, number 2

Origin of expectational

From expectation + -al.

Words formed from expectational

Questions about expectational

What does expectational mean?
Expectational means relating to expectation.
What part of speech is expectational?
Expectational is an adjective.

Words near expectational in the dictionary

  1. expectant
  2. expectantly
  3. expectants
  4. expectation
  5. Expectation Week
  6. expectational
  7. expectationally
  8. expectationism
  9. expectationist
  10. expectationists
  11. expectations

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