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The state of being eligible
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eligibility
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Word definitions for eligibility in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eligibility \El`i*gi*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]ligibilit['e].] The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state, quality, or the fact of being eligible.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "worthiness to be chosen," from eligible + -ity . From 1715 as "legal qualification to be chosen."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Eligibility may refer to: The right to run for office (in elections ), sometimes called passive suffrage or voting eligibility Desirability as a marriage partner, as in the term eligible bachelor Validity for participation, as in eligibility to enter a ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being eligible the quality or state of being eligible; "eligibility of a candidate for office"; "eligibility for a loan" [ant: ineligibility ]
Usage examples of eligibility.
They appreciated the difference between voting for a bill of general amnesty which included Jefferson Davis without name, and voting for an amendment which named him and him only for restoration to eligibility to any office under the Government of the United States.
In contrast with the latter result, however, is a subsequent decision of the Court holding unconstitutional another section of the same California law providing that when an indictment alleges alienage and ineligibility to United States citizenship of a defendant, the burden of proving citizenship or eligibility thereto shall devolve upon the defendant.
Although on two occasions when it refused to seat persons who were ineligible when they sought to take the oath of office, the Senate indicated that eligibility must exist at the time of election, it is now established in both Houses that it is sufficient if the requirements are met when the oath is administered.
Gately flunked Sophomore Comp. in May and lost the fall's eligibility and withdrew from school for a year to preserve his junior season.
So few available females had auras above 150, and most of those had other qualities to qualify their eligibility.
He was distinguished among the admirers of Miss Sarah's red and white beauty by his brainlessness no less than by his eligibility.
Her tone conveyed a natural optimism, as though, having sent in all the forms, having held on to the matching numbers that established her eligibility, she might open the door to someone bearing the keys to her new car or, better yet, that oversized check for several million bucks.
The High Court upset a ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in re eligibility to vote in primaries involving Federation Assemblymen in the case of Reinsberg vs.