ELIGIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eligible mean? 

• ELIGIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective ELIGIBLE has 1 sense:

1. qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen

  Familiarity information: ELIGIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELIGIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen

Context example:

an eligible bachelor

Similar:

bailable (eligible for bail)

desirable; suitable; worthy (worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse)

entitled (qualified for by right according to law)

in line (awaiting something; especially something due)

legal (allowed by official rules)

pensionable (entitled to receive a pension)

Also:

qualified (meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task)

Antonym:

ineligible (not eligible)

Derivation:

elect (select by a vote for an office or membership)

eligibility (the quality or state of being eligible)

 Context examples 

I shall write to Mrs. Partridge in a day or two, and shall give her a strict charge to be on the look-out for any thing eligible.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A clinical study that includes all eligible patients identified by the researchers during the study registration period.

(Consecutive case series, NCI Dictionary)

A military life is not what I was intended for, but circumstances have now made it eligible.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Personal health maintenance at an individual's residence that is administered and monitored by a member of a healthcare organization that is eligible to receive Medicare funding.

(Home Under Care of Organized Home Health Service Organization in Anticipation of Covered Skilled Care, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

After a moment's thought, Miss Crawford calmly replied, As far as I am concerned, I can have no objection to anything that you all think eligible.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You need be in no hurry to hear, he said: let me frankly tell you, I have nothing eligible or profitable to suggest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

‘Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one of the vacancies.’

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

Two rope handles, nailed on by Martin, had technically transformed it into a trunk eligible for the baggage-car.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The patient will return home but personal health maintenance will be administered and monitored by a member of a healthcare organization that is eligible to receive Medicare funding.

(Home Under Care of Organized Home Health Service Organization in Anticipation of Covered Skilled Care, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Generally, a 4-year undergraduate degree is required to be eligible for entry into a JD program.

(Doctor of Law, NCI Thesaurus)