eligible
IPA: ˈɛɫʌdʒʌbʌɫ
noun
- One who is eligible.
adjective
- Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something
- Worthy of being chosen (for marriage).
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Examples of "eligible" in Sentences
- The man is eligible to enter the building.
- Notice that the total is not the number of eligible voters.
- Relevant works published in the year of the award are eligible.
- Owners of the original game were eligible for a mail in rebate.
- Each of the thirty nations were eligible to win the championship.
- It is the responsibility of the eligible voters to enroll their names.
- Every citizen of India is eligible to become the President of the country.
- Any citizen of the USA or the UK was eligible to participate in the contest.
- Men and women are equally obligated and eligible to participate in the Seder.
- Thanks to Brissenden, his black suit was out of pawn and he was again eligible for dinner parties.
- April 25, 2009 - Families living in eligible areas of Montgomery County are invited to join the Study.
- The benefit is they remain eligible to enter legally in the future whereas those involuntarily deported are subject to a strict ten year bar.
- The term 'eligible beneficiary' means any individual who is an active enrollee in the CLASS program and, as of the date described in subparagraph B
- The Recovery Act allowed investors to exclude 75% of their profits if they invested in eligible small businesses between mid-February 2009 and the end of this year.
- But recently, city officials have been concerned whether Mr. Smith's group would be able to meet a year-end deadline to remain eligible for the $20 million of federally backed financing.
- "What he's done and what he's done to reclaim his career and seemingly the kind of person that he has become makes him -- I don't even want to use the word eligible -- but you know, it's time," he said.
- Fredrik Wentzel (Almtuna) — Second-year eligible is a classic late bloomer who has come out of nowhere and continued to impress us by taking Almtuna to the Swedish Elite League qualifying round, posting great numbers.