expectational

English

Etymology

From expectation +‎ -al.

Adjective

expectational (not comparable)

1. Relating to expectation.
   • 1975, Arthur Melvin Okun, “Inflation: Its Mechanics and Welfare Costs”, in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, volume 6, number 2:

     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.

Derived terms

• counterexpectational
• expectationally