prospective
IPA: prʌspˈɛktɪv
noun
- (obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
- (obsolete) A perspective glass.
- 1613 March 2 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Masque of the Inner-Temple and Gray’s Inn, Gray’s Inn and the Inner-Temple; […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: […], volume IV, London: […] John Stockdale, […], published 1811, →OCLC, page 573, column 2:
- (informal, often plural) A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
adjective
- Likely or expected to happen or become.
- Anticipated in the near or far future.
- Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
- Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
- (medicine, of research) A study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
- (grammar) Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
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Examples of "prospective" in Sentences
- It exists to expand the horizons of prospective students.
- Jerry Preston was the prospective investor into the school.