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If you get good grades, volunteer at the hospital, play varsity sports, and write for your school paper, you might be eligible for a college scholarship.
If you’re eligible for something, you’re either qualified for it or allowed to do it. You’re eligible for unemployment benefits if you’ve recently been laid off, but not if you've never had a job in the first place. You may not be eligible to enter a sweepstakes if you work for the company giving away the money. Neither your dog nor your friend from Australia is eligible to run for president of the United States, but you might be!
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qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen“eligible to run for office”“eligible for retirement benefits”“an eligible bachelor”
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Synonyms:
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bailable
eligible for bail
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desirable, suitable, worthy
worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse
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entitled
qualified for by right according to law
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in line
awaiting something; especially something due
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legal
allowed by official rules
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pensionable
entitled to receive a pension
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qualified
meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task
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Antonyms:
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ineligible
not eligible
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disqualified
disqualified by law or rule or provision
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disqualified
barred from competition for violation of rules
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undesirable, unsuitable
not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse)
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unentitled, unqualified
having no right or entitlement
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unqualified
not meeting the proper standards and requirements and training
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bailable
/ˈɛlədʒəbəl/
/ˈɛlɪdʒɛbəl/
Vocabulary lists containing eligible
When twelve-year-old Sophie Brown moves from a California city to a farm her dad has inherited, she is determined to learn how to raise the chickens she finds. Here's a link to our collection for the sequel: Are You Ready to Hatch an Unusual Chicken?.
After her father testifies in a murder trial, twelve-year-old Toswiah Green and her family join the witness protection program. Toswiah must learn to let go of her past and adjust to her new life as Evie Thomas.
Meena and River, twelve-year-olds from very different backgrounds, become pen pals.
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