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could-be /ˈkʊdbi/adjective [attributive]Able to be or become; possible: his new could-be love interest a could-be fatal illness...- He collects stories, from passengers, of could-be weapons - scissors, nail files - that slipped through security.
- My first idea wasn't that great since it was, in a sense, excluding a group of could-be customers.
- I had a couple of disasters, but I came out better than if I was retiring today and all these would-be, could-be fund managers were in charge of my money.
noun informalA potential candidate for a job or situation: political could-bes...- Military planners work with "scenarios," rather than scenes, political could-bes and military what-ifs that become the basis for campaign plans.
- That will leave a heap of disappointed nobodies, has beens, could-bes and wannabes on the ground.
- Many of those would remain could-bes if it were not for that Jupiterian good luck that so often turns things around at the eleventh hour.
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