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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
entrant
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mature
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Congratulations to the winners, commiserations to other entrants and thanks to Peugeot for sponsoring the competition.
▪ Employment prospects were also at least as good and in some cases slightly better than for school leaver entrants.
▪ Firms may use advertising to defend their existing position or to signal to potential entrants that incursions will be challenged.
▪ Introducing renewable limited-term tenancies for agricultural land, encouraging new entrants to farming.
▪ Many executives who leave their jobs transfer to other executive or managerial positions, limiting openings for new entrants.
▪ The 61 entrants were informed of the limit last week.
▪ The project seeks to chart the speed of reaction by entrants to profitable opportunities, and documents the principal barriers to entry.
▪ The registration statistics revealed only 4.5% as non-standard entrants, and this may be a slightly exaggerated figure.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entrant

Entrant \En"trant\, n. [See Entrance, n.]

  1. One who enters; a beginner. ``The entrant upon life.''
    --Bp. Terrot.

  2. An applicant for admission.
    --Stormonth.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
entrant

1630s, "one who enters, a beginner" (of professions, etc.); from French entrant, present participle of entrer (see enter). From 1838 with reference to one who enters a contest. As an adjective from 1630s.

Wiktionary
entrant

n. 1 participant 2 newcomer

WordNet
entrant

  1. n. a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise; "a well publicized entrant is the pocket computer"

  2. any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie]

  3. someone who enters; "new entrants to the country must go though immigration procedures"

  4. one who enters a competition

Usage examples of "entrant".

En entrant dans la salle ou fumait la soupe aux choux, Catherine frissonna de nouveau.

Richmond, embrasserait la religion romaine, et, entrant dans les ordres, suivrait M.

He was still eyeing me with an air of appraisal, as though I were a prime entrant in the Silver Medalist Round at the Shropshire Fat Pigs Show.

He would, in short, have been an unsafe entrant to have backed in a beauty contest, even if the only other competitors had been Boris Karloff, King Kong and Oofy Prosser of the Drones.

It felt different from Primgranese Baubles, partly because this one carried no idents of previous ego-field entrants, and partly because it was different on the physiochemical level.

Sarvallo suddenly announced, and more than half the entrants immediately did just that.

Another trick to rattle the entrants, and my black-haired opponent almost fell for it.

Those entrants who put everything they had into attack-their efforts should have canceled each other out, but you said it killed them both.

They temporarily closed the Customs gate, leaving the entrants sitting, waiting, and reported by visiphone to Hanovich.

Gobred and Bohun reined about and faced their own knights these rode out of the lists, those who were not to take part in the encounters of the day seeking places in the stands after turning their chargers over to grooms, while those who were to participate formed again to ride once around the lists, for the double purpose of indicating to their opponents and the spectators the entrants for that day and of viewing the prizes offered by their opponents.

Bohun led his entrants about the lists as they paraded before the opening encounter, and once again he drew rein before the loge of Gobred and his eye rested upon the beautiful face of Guinalda for an instant before he addressed her sire.

Hereford riding, bareback bucking pony riding, team roping of the same sad-sack cow by six entrants, and pony racing for kids.

Allheart knights and more of the tournament entrants than the rest of the kingdom combined.

When A Clubbable Woman came out, I was a whizzkid sergeant, graduate entrant, potential high-flier.

He stopped in the center of the floor and swept his eyes across the line of entrants, his face set in its usual sour and disapproving scowl.