eligible
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3.9
- adjective
- /ˈɛlɪdʒəbl/
:
elegible
- In the meantime, you remain eligible for insurance and medical benefits.
- eligible to participate
- eligible to receive
- medically eligible
That makes you essentially eligible to apply for this other loan.
- That makes you essentially eligible to apply for this other loan.
- If you are a Love Life member, you already are eligible for a ticket.
- For those in prisons, those in prisons will not be eligible for stimulus money.
- He then wound up his fund, and he was no longer eligible to take outside money.
- Question that keeps coming up is, are people with ITIN number eligible for the stimulus checks?
- Almost half of the global population who are eligible to vote will have that opportunity this year.
- But the problem is there's a good chance that you won't be eligible.
- And so you can raise capital from them, from your friends, from your family members or any eligible investor.
- Did you know that you might be eligible for free eyeglasses, hearing aids, and even gym memberships?
- All but two of the eligible studies about processed meat, and there are scores of them.
- Once you join, you'll save on each eligible order and receive DoorDash credits back on all pickup orders.
- I felt like if I didn't act, he was so eligible that, you know, someone else would have snapped him up.
Examples
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In this district, 60% of students in Grades 4-12 were eligible for free or reduced lunch.
Academic text (2011) -
Almost half of the global population who are eligible to vote will have that opportunity this year.
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And how many years before you would be eligible for that position if you had this degree?
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Of these, 15 to 20 are likely to be eligible for leaving care support.
Academic text (2011) -
Based on family income, students were identified as eligible for free lunch, reduced lunch, or not eligible.
Academic text (2011) -
Approximately 90% of the students in the school were eligible for free or reduced lunch.
Academic text (2011) -
We are going to provide extra funding to support schools to provide food parcels or meals to eligible children.
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You're a very eligible bachelor, Mr. Pepper.
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You'll be eligible for parole no earlier than the year 2046.
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Many students were found to be eligible for scholarships based on their academic performance.
Synonyms
304
3.0
Having the skills and experience needed for a job
172
1.8
Right for a certain purpose, person, or situation
11
3.5
A person who has the right skills and experience for a job
6
3.5
A person who has skills and training to get and keep a regular job
Can be chosen for a team or job because of skill
Likely to be chosen for a job because of skills
Antonyms
How Eligible
Surface Forms
Morphology
eligible = elig + ible
The suffix '-ible' is a productive adjective-forming ending, but the stem 'elig' is not a standalone English word (relation to 'elect' is not form-transparent), so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from the parts.
Etymology
Eligible comes from the old Latin verb eligere, which means 'to choose'. This is the same root in words like elect and select, so someone eligible is 'able to be chosen' or meets the conditions to be picked.