APPLICANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does applicant mean? 

• APPLICANT (noun)
  The noun APPLICANT has 1 sense:

1. a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission

  Familiarity information: APPLICANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPLICANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

applicant; applier

Hypernyms ("applicant" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "applicant"):

aspirant; aspirer; hopeful; wannabe; wannabee (an ambitious and aspiring young person)

bidder (someone who makes an offer)

claimant (someone who claims a benefit or right or title)

job candidate (an applicant who is being considered for a job)

material (a person judged suitable for admission or employment)

petitioner; requester; suppliant; supplicant (one praying humbly for something)

possible (an applicant who might be suitable)

probable (an applicant likely to be chosen)

submitter (someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others)

Derivation:

apply (ask (for something))

 Context examples 

Typically, they process applications and award funds to the chosen qualified applicants.

(Funding Agency, NCI Thesaurus)

National Research Service Awards (NRSA) are made to individual fellowship applicants selected for award as a result of national competition for research training in specified health-related areas.

(Individual National Research Service Award, NCI Thesaurus)

It is anticipated this change will reduce the administrative burden for the applicants, their institutions and the reviewers of the application.

(Just-in-time-concept, NCI Thesaurus)

Still, you will likely either receive the call this month or find out that your prospective employer has narrowed the list of most-qualified applicants.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Internal code used by the applicant or sponsor.

(Code, Food and Drug Administration)

The third applicant was a man of remarkable appearance.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The type of contact which describes the person designated by an applicant or sponsor to interact with regulatory agencies.

(Applicant Contact Type, Food and Drug Administration)

Was he the only applicant?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two knights in full armor, with lances raised and closed visors, sat their horses on either side, while in the centre, with two pages to tend upon him, there stood a noble-faced man in flowing purple gown, who pricked off upon a sheet of parchment the style and title of each applicant, marshalling them in their due order, and giving to each the place and facility which his rank demanded.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Walter spurned the idea of its being offered in any manner; forbad the slightest hint being dropped of his having such an intention; and it was only on the supposition of his being spontaneously solicited by some most unexceptionable applicant, on his own terms, and as a great favour, that he would let it at all.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)