(a.) That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.
(a.) Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
(2) Anything not eligible is simply ignored or assumed to be someone else’s responsibility.
(3) Between January 1979 and April 1983, 113 children undergoing their first relapse of acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) at any site were registered in Pediatric Oncology Group study 7834; 98 were eligible and evaluable.
(4) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(5) Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni.
(6) Only subjects 65 years of age or older were eligible for inclusion.
(7) The SAA is also the only entity eligible to apply for these funds.
(8) Students from low-income backgrounds will be eligible to apply for top-up grants up to a further £3,250, dependant on household income (ie the full £3,250 grant will be available up to a household income of £25,000 and a partial grant up to a household income of £60,000).
(9) It was based on 12 publications selected out of 993 eligible.
(10) Of 103 eligible children, the quality of recovery was assessed by the Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) at 6 months after injury in 92 patients (86% of series) and at 1 year in 82 patients (73% of series).
(11) Approximately 40 per cent of women eligible for prenatal diagnosis did not receive any information from the referring body prior to counselling at our centre.
(12) Nancy Davis was a middle-ranking film actor in her 20s when she received her initial introduction to Reagan, having already told a friend that he was top of her list of Hollywood’s eligible bachelors.
(13) A questionnaire was administered to parents who volunteered their children for a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial of a drug to treat asthma and to a control group of parents whose children were eligible for the trial but had refused the invitation.
(14) Two interview surveys were conducted with AFDC and HR (general assistance) Medicaid eligibles, the first under the fee-for-service system servicing the Medicaid population, and the second 18 months after the introduction of a mandatory, prepaid managed care system for Medicaid beneficiaries.
(15) Others who were at the sharp end, including doctors, nurses and even newspaper war correspondents, may also be eligible.
(16) The white paper will also force councils to define more precisely eligibility criteria for social care and provide the elderly with information about services in the local area.
(17) Eligible subjects include early PD patients (illness duration less than 5 years and in stages I and II), aged 30 to 79, who are not taking or requiring any anti-PD medications.
(18) Out of 582 eligible women contacted from the age-sex register, 252 (43%) attended the clinic.
(19) In 2013, he told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that the Texas senator might not be eligible to be president.
(20) The five eligible patients initially treated with placebo had progressive CFU increases; when three were switched to clarithromycin plus the four drugs, their CFU declined.
In
Definition:
(prep.) The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among.
(prep.) With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston; he traveled in Italy; castles in the air.
(prep.) With reference to circumstances or conditions; as, he is in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light.
(prep.) With reference to a whole which includes or comprises the part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army.
(prep.) With reference to physical surrounding, personal states, etc., abstractly denoted; as, I am in doubt; the room is in darkness; to live in fear.
(prep.) With reference to character, reach, scope, or influence considered as establishing a limitation; as, to be in one's favor.
(prep.) With reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in God.
(prep.) With reference to a limit of time; as, in an hour; it happened in the last century; in all my life.
(adv.) Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house).
(adv.) With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband.
(n.) One who is in office; -- the opposite of out.