| 单词 | applicant |
| 释义 | applicant (once / 1228 pages) n An applicant is someone who signs up or applies for something. A job applicant for example, often fills out a form and then interviews for the position she hopes to get. When you submit your college application to a school you'd like to attend, you are an applicant to that school. Other kinds of applicants are job candidates and scholarship hopefuls. To apply is to put in for or request entry to something, and the root of both apply and applicant is the Old French aploiier, "apply, use, or attach," from the Latin applicare, "attach to, join, or connect." WORD FAMILYapplicant: applicants+/applicable: applicability, applicably, inapplicable/application: applications/applier: appliers/apply: applicable, applicant, application, applicative, applicatory, applied, applier, applies, applying, misapply/inapplicable: inapplicability, inapplicably/misapplication: misapplications/misapply: misapplication, misapplied, misapplies, misapplying USAGE EXAMPLESKrebs’ office issues a permit after it gets approved by an applicant’s county sheriff. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) The Swedish government says it tries to prioritize cases like Girmay's, where the applicant is about to turn 18. Reuters(Dec 30, 2016) It also says the winning applicants should be dispersed across the country “to the maximum extent practicable.” Science Magazine(Dec 29, 2016) n a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission Syn|Hypo|Hyper applier aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee an ambitious and aspiring young person biddersomeone who makes an offer claimantsomeone who claims a benefit or right or title job candidatean applicant who is being considered for a job materiala person judged suitable for admission or employment petitioner, requester, suppliant, supplicantone praying humbly for something possiblean applicant who might be suitable probablean applicant likely to be chosen submittersomeone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others besiegeran energetic petitioner postulantone submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order Pretendera claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title) canvasser, solicitora petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being |
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