单词 | entrant |
释义 | entranten‧trant /ˈentrənt/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINentrant ExamplesOrigin: 1600-1700 French entrer; ➔ ENTEREXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who takes part in something► participant Collocations formal someone who takes part in an organized event or activity: · This summer's children's art program had 14 participants.· At the end of the conference, all the participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire.participant in: · Reyes is an active participant in the protest movement. ► competitor someone who takes part in a race, game, or competition: · One of the competitors hurt her leg during the race.· Twenty-seven competitors from around the country will take part in Sunday's monster truck rally. ► entrant formal someone who takes part in a competition: · Davis was selected from 200,000 entrants to win the trip to the Super Bowl.· The winning entrant will receive a scholarship to the famous college of art and a year's supply of artist's materials. ► contestant someone who takes part in a competition or game, especially one that is judged by a group of judges: · Suzanne was a beauty-queen contestant in college.· The questions that contestants must answer get more difficult as the game goes on. ► entry the piece of work or answer which someone has sent to be judged in a competition: · All entries for the contest must be received by September 11.· Her entry in the "Funniest Photo Contest" won third prize.· Organizers of the Lawson short story competition have received over 100,000 entries. ► involved the people involved are the people who are taking part or who took part in an activity or event: · In court she gave evidence about her torture, naming the officers involved.· Most of the people involved have by now either died or moved away.· Following the riots, the university promised to discipline all those involved. ► player someone who takes part in a game: · Up to six players can play this game on-line.· It's now the turn of player number three.· COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► mature Word family· Among our sample were six engineers who, with differing motives, had been mature entrants to the profession.· Meanwhile, the number of mature entrants to higher education has risen by 65 percent since 1979.· An additional factor in considering the question of definition is that by far the majority of non-traditional entrants are also mature entrants.· This difference was explained largely by the higher rate of withdrawal for non academic reasons for mature entrants.· Others presumably went into employment thus joining the pool of potential young mature age entrants.· Establish training courses for mature entrants.· The second area of contention was the treatment of mature entrants. ► new· A new entrant, joining in July 1960, had devilled for all but one of the dozen or so lawyers by Christmas.· My public school is under state mandate to conduct a screening for new entrants, and kindergarten children fall into this category.· These people will be highly attractive to would-be new entrants, who are expected to head-hunt them.· There may be an age ceiling for new entrants.· The Inns now contribute £1.5 million per year by way of scholarships to new entrants.· A new entrant into a creative department can expect to be doing such jobs.· The new entrant in this category, and one who interests me a lot, is Fred Couples.· Introducing renewable limited-term tenancies for agricultural land, encouraging new entrants to farming. ► potential· Therefore the possibility of there being a natural monopoly is intimately related to the assumptions regarding potential entrant behaviour.· In the previous chapter we hypothesized that potential entrants assume that the industry price will not be affected by their entry.· Firms may use advertising to defend their existing position or to signal to potential entrants that incursions will be challenged.· If this will always happen, potential entrants will be deterred.· The basic idea is that sunk costs shift profit outcomes in the post-entry game so that a potential entrant will be deterred. VERB► attract· No Women's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants, so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix.· Rapid market growth and sector under-capacity encouraged Pilkingtons to expand and attracted new entrants to the marketplace without adverse effects on profits.· It's well worth submitting entries to minor competitions as they often attract very few entrants giving high chances of success. WORD FAMILYnounentranceentrantentryverbenter 1someone who takes part in a competition2especially British English someone who has recently started studying at university, or workingentrant to new entrants to higher education |
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