ELIGIBILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eligibility mean? 

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

1. the quality or state of being eligible

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELIGIBILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or state of being eligible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

eligibility for a loan

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

making; qualification (an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something)

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

insurability (the quality of being insurable; the conditions under which an insurance company will issue insurance to an applicant (based on standards set by the insurance company))

marriageability (eligibility for marriage)

Antonym:

ineligibility (the quality or state of being ineligible)

Derivation:

eligible (qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen)

 Context examples 

Characteristics limiting the eligibility of a subject for the clinical study must be considered.

(Inclusion Criteria, NCI Thesaurus)

Indicate if persons who have not had the condition(s) being studied or otherwise related conditions or symptoms, as specified in the eligibility requirements, may participate in the study.

(Healthy Subject Indicator, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

When all participants meet the same eligibility criteria, it gives researchers greater confidence that results of the study are caused by the intervention being tested and not by other factors.

(Eligibility criteria, NCI Dictionary)

An approved exemption to the requirement for a participant to meet eligibility criteria prior to study enrollment.

(Eligibility Waiver, NCI Thesaurus)

The eligibility for the program does not depend on a person's age.

(Medicaid, NCI Thesaurus)

Specifies whether persons who have not had the condition(s) being studied or otherwise related conditions or symptoms, as specified in the eligibility requirements, may participate in the study.

(Interventional Study Protocol Version Accepts Healthy Volunteers Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): treating a disease (treatment), determining eligibility for a study (screening)

(Planned Activity Purpose, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Its probability and its eligibility have really so equalled each other!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Specifies whether the specific eligibility criterion is not applicable to this participant.

(Performed Eligibility Criterion Not Applicable Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

She was debating within herself on the eligibility of beginning her story directly, or postponing it till Marianne were in stronger health;—and they crept on for a few minutes in silence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)