Crossword clues for eligibility
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "worthiness to be chosen," from eligible + -ity. From 1715 as "legal qualification to be chosen."
Wiktionary
n. The state, quality, or the fact of being eligible.
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]
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 Competition
- Eligibility for the NBA Draft
- Eligibility to catch a forward pass in American football
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Eligibility to participate in U.S. college sports
- See also Redshirt (college sports)
- Eligibility to play for a certain national association football team.
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.