applicant
- noun
- /ˈæplɪkənt/
- To apply for the position, each applicant must submit a resume and cover letter.
- job applicant
- qualified applicants
- successful applicants
And the white male applicants get far more callbacks.
- And the white male applicants get far more callbacks.
- I mean, he's leaving and there were just so many good applicants that got crushed.
- He was our only applicant for the position and we never told him that.
- So the Pennsylvania Police Academy will it, it wasn't accepting new applicants that year.
- So I was probably one of the very first applicants.
- This fall, Victoria and Anna came to me among a pool of applicants, all of whom were so exciting.
- But the wife has to be first on the loan documents because she is the primary applicant.
- But anyway, remember what it actually says in the amount requested by applicant.
- There seems to be a clear tendency to sort of dismiss minority applicants.
- Denied accommodation, facing endless delays or failing unaccommodated tests, applicants would have to drastically lower their ambitions.
- And that's great because you kind of want to have your applicant pool as wide as possible in the initial phases of a selection process.
- So right away, just your job advertisement, it leads to a pool of applicants that can differ, but also the wages might differ.
- The CARES Act additionally prohibited the SBA from looking at tax return data that could have excluded undeserving applicants.
- And you know, and, and so that's what you need is a bigger feed, a bigger applicant pool, right, To reveal talent and for a field to progress.
Examples
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All offer financial aid, and all select applicants based on merit.
Academic text (2008) -
Priority for employment should be given to applicants with successful regular or substitute teaching experience.
Academic text (1991) -
What does a job applicant look like?
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Send in the next applicant.
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I guess there were a lot of applicants this year, and...
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" I heard that the top applicants had to do volunteer work."
Fiction book (1993) -
I'm sorry, it is against house policy for applicants to make personal calls.
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Why should anybody invest all that money to train me... when there are a thousand other applicants with a far cleaner profile?
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High school GPA is a key influence on whether applicants enter a college or university.
Academic text (2013) -
And I must say, it isn't often that we have an applicant of your maturity and... varied experience.
Synonyms
A person being considered for a job, award or prize
A person who formally asks a court or official for something
A person who applies to be hired for a job
A program or person that asks a server to send data
A person who asks another person or group for something
A person who asks for a job or a place at school by sending written papers
A person who asks a court or government body to make a formal decision
How Likely
- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word applicant comes from the verb apply, which originally meant 'to attach' or 'bring to', so an applicant is someone who 'brings forward' a request or their name for a job, a place at school, or help.