Eligibility

Definitions: Eligibility

Eligibility

Noun

1. The state of being eligible.

2. The quality or state of being eligible: "eligibility of a candidate for office"; "eligibility for a loan".

Date "eligibility" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references)

Antonym: ineligibility (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Eligibility

English words defined with "eligibility": marriageability. (references)

Specialty definitions using "eligibility": administrative assistant, Administrative Capability, ADMISSIONS EVALUATOR, ADMITTING OFFICER, appeals board referee, APPEALS REFEREE, appointment clerk, APPRENTICESHIP CONSULTANT, area representative, automobile rental agent, AUTOMOBILE RENTAL CLERK, automobile rental representative ♦ car rental clerk, Caribbean Basin Initiative, Central Processing System, CIVIL-SERVICE CLERK, CLAIMS ADJUDICATOR, Clinical Trials, community placement worker, Conservation compliance, Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961, CONTACT REPRESENTATIVE, coordinator of placement, counseling-center manager, counselor, vocational rehabilitatio, creditable service ♦ degree clerk, director of career planning and placement, director of career resources, DIRECTOR OF COUNSELING, DIRECTOR OF PLACEMENT, director, counseling bureau, DIRECTOR, FIELD REPRESENTATIVES, director, vocational counseling, Disability Evaluation, discard eligibility indicator, DRIVER'S LICENSE EXAMINER ♦ electoral roll, Eligibility Determination, ELIGIBILITY WORKER, ELIGIBILITY-AND-OCCUPANCY INTERVIEWER, Eligible Student, Emergency Food Assistance and Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program, EMPLOYMENT CLERK, EMPLOYMENT-AND-CLAIMS AIDE, Expected Family Contribution ♦ Farmland Protection Program, Federal Direct Stafford Loan, Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations, Food Stamp Act of 1964, Food Stamp Program, Free Application for Federal Student Aid, Free lunch, functional status ♦ head counselo ♦ IMMIGRATION INSPECTOR, Initial claimant, intake worker ♦ Levellers ♦ manager of student placement service, MANAGER, TOBACCO WAREHOUSE ♦ non-contributory schemes ♦ Offer versus serve, OFFICE SUPERVISOR, ANIMAL HOSPITAL ♦ Paid diversion, PASSPORT-APPLICATION EXAMINER, physician, general practic, Poverty guidelines, preparatory phase, Professional Judgment ♦ reception interviewer, recruitment clerk, relatively less developed ♦ sales representative, social service worker, SUPERINTENDENT, SALES, SUPERVISOR OF SALES, SUPERVISOR, SPECIAL SERVICES, Swampbuster ♦ veterans' coordinator, VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION COUNSELOR, Voting, people eligible to register. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Eligibility

Domain	Title
Books	Case Worker: Social Investigator, Eligibility Specialist (reference) College Funding Made Easy: How to Save for College While Maintaining Eligibility for Financial Aid (reference) Eligibility for Entry into the United States of America (reference) Eligibility Specialist (Career Examination Series) (reference) Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the Wic Program: Phase I Report (Compass Series (Washington, D.C.).) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Managing Medi-cal Eligibility Step By Step (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Abcs of Eligibility for College Athle (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Eligibility

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Its probability and its eligibility have really so equalled each other!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Eligibility

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The program has standards for fairness, equity, and unbiased eligibility. (references)
		Eligibility requirements and entrance procedures vary from state to state. (references)
		Each study enrolls patients with certain features or eligibility criteria. (references)
Business		Foreign firms should contact each agency directly to establish their eligibility. (references)
		Restrictions of IFIs or donor governments are limited to the eligibility of product and producer. (references)
		The restrictions of IFIs or donor governments are limited to the eligibility of product and producer. (references)
Civil Liberties	Belize	The previous administration appointed members to an eligibility committee to review applications for asylum. (references)
	Kenya	A UNHCR eligibility committee in Nairobi performs a similar function for individuals of other nationalities. (references)
	Zambia	The Government and UNHCR planned to undertake additional evaluation on the eligibility of these former combatants. (references)
Economic History	Ireland	IDA Ireland assesses potential investment projects for eligibility for grant aid. (references)
	Italy	Therefore, U.S. firms need to contact each agency directly to establish their eligibility. (references)
	Chad	In May, 2001, the World Bank and the IMF announced Chad's eligibility for the HIPC debt relief initiative. (references)
Human Rights	Bolivia	A prisoner's wealth can determine cell size, visiting privileges, day-pass eligibility, and place or length of confinement. (references)
	Mozambique	In the absence of this body, the Supreme Court is tasked with ruling on issues of constitutionality, as it did when assessing the eligibility of presidential candidates for the general elections. (references)
Minorities	India	Low caste Hindus who convert to Christianity lose their eligibility for affirmative action programs. (references)
Political Economy	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC	The Mejia government has pledged, however, in connection with its bid for eligibility for CBTPA benefits, to bring IPR protection up to TRIPS standards. (references)
	Cote D'ivoire	Increased trade and investment under possible AGOA eligibility serves as an incentive for the Ivoirian government to safeguard stability and the rule of law. (references)
	Bhutan	A ministerial-level bilateral meeting in November failed to resolve disputes concerning the categorization of refugees in terms of eligibility for their eventual repatriation. (references)
Political Rights	Tunisia	Narrowly written criteria in the Electoral Code greatly restrict the eligibility of persons to run for president. (references)
	Greece	A second Muslim, also from PASOK, became an M.P. in September 2000 after winning a court challenge to the eligibility of a seated M.P. for violating a constitutional provision. (references)
	Burkina Faso	However, during the September 2000 municipal elections, the CENI was criticized for deferring to the Government on important questions such as postponing the elections and candidate eligibility. (references)
Trade	Germany	The only exception is for products for use in certain work place applications, where either of these marks are required to meet insurance eligibility requirements. (references)
	Jamaica	To meet CBI eligibility standards, products must contain 35 percent value added in Jamaica, of which U.S. materials must comprise 15 percent of the value of the finished product. (references)
	Philippines	Companies seeking medium-or long-term project financing, political risk insurance, or both, should contact OPIC for further information on eligibility and registration procedures. (references)
Worker Rights	Philippines	Hiring often is controlled tightly through SEZ labor centers, in which political ties to local figures play a role in gaining job eligibility. (references)
	Syria	In 1992 Syria's eligibility for tariff preferences under the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences was suspended because the Government failed to afford internationally recognized worker rights to workers. (references)
	Maldives	In 1995 the U.S. Government suspended the country's eligibility for tariff preferences under the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences because the Government failed to take steps to afford internationally recognized worker rights to workers. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Eligibility

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	I will ask Congress for Presidential authority to tighten up the rules for eligibility and benefits.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Eligibility

"Eligibility" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.67% of the time. "Eligibility" is used about 305 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.67%	304	16,610
Noun (common)	0.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	305	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Eligibility

Expressions using "eligibility": discard eligibility indicator ♦ Eligibility Determination. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "eligibility": less-eligibility.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eligibility

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
medicaid eligibility	107
medicare eligibility	34
food stamp eligibility	29
eligibility	27
medicade eligibility	22
eligibility unemployment	21
ncaa eligibility	19
eligibility security social	18
florida medicaid eligibility	17
certificate of eligibility	17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Eligibility

Language		Translations for "eligibility"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		e drejtë për t'u zgjedhur, pranueshmëri (acceptability). (various references)

Arabic		‏جدارة للقبول, ‏جدارة للانتخاب, ‏جدارة (aptitude, competence, desert, efficiency, fitness, merit, qualification, suitability, worth, worthiness), ‏أهلية للانتخاب. (various references)

Bulgarian		приемливост (acceptability, admissibility, plausibility), избираемост. (various references)

Chinese		合� � (Eligible, Qualified, Qualify, Qualifying, well-formed). (various references)

Czech		zvolitelnost. (various references)

Danish		støtteberettigelse. (various references)

Dutch		subsidiabiliteit, ontvankelijkheid (receptivity, susceptibility), benoembaarheid. (various references)

Farsi		شایستگی (Ability, Adequacy, Aptitude, Aptness, Competence, Decency, Desert, Merit, Pertinence, Sufficiency). (various references)

Finnish		vaalikelpoisuus. (various references)

French		admissibilité, éligibilité. (various references)

German		eignung (applicability, aptitude, aptness, fitness, fitness for employment, qualification, suitability, suitability for employment), Auswahl (anthology, assortment, choice, choosing, cull, identification, miscellany, natural selection, pick, range, representative team, sample, select, selected, selection, variety). (various references)

Greek		επιλεξιμότητα, αρμοδιότητα (activity, appropriateness, aptitude, cognizance, competence, domain, fitness, jurisdiction, propriety, province, relevance, relevancy, suitability), αιρετότησ, αιρετότητα. (various references)

Hungarian		választhatóság, partiképesség, kiválaszthatóság. (various references)

Italian		elettorato (dialer, electorate, franchise), eleggibilit� , sovvenzionabilit� , ammissibilit� (admissibility). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		合� � (passing, success). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うかく (passing, success). (various references)

Korean		� �임. (various references)

Norwegian		valgbarhet. (various references)

Pig Latin		eligibilityay.(various references)

Portuguese		elegibilidade (eligible), omitir (default, Dele, expurgation, forget me not, leave out, omit, overland, overlie, overlook, pretermit). (various references)

Romanian		eligibilitate (eligibleness). (various references)

Russian		право на избрание, приемлемость (acceptability, acceptableness, supportability). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kvalifikovanost, biračko pravo (vote). (various references)

Spanish		elegibilidad. (various references)

Swedish		valbarhet, lämplighet (adequacy, aptitude, congruity, expedience, expediency, fitness, suitability). (various references)

Turkish		uygun olma (accordance, fit, suitability), nitelik (attribute, attribution, character, characteristic, composition, essence, hallmark, kind, plate-mark, property, qualification, qualitative, quality, stamp), ayrıcalık (benefit, cachet, charter, concession, concessionairy, faculty, Favor, favour, franchise, immunity, incident, oracle, peculiar, prerogative, privilege, refusal, royalty, speciality), üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, beat, championship, class, distinction, dominance, edge, excellence, head start, hegemony, lordship, mastery, odds, overweight, pre eminence, precedence, predominance, preponderance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, whip hand). (various references)

Ukranian		бажаність (advisability), право на обрання, прийнятність (acceptability, admissibility). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính thích hợp tính có thể chọn được, tính đủ tư cách. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Eligibility

Derivations
	Words ending with "eligibility": ineligibility, reeligibility. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Eligibility" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elegibility, elligibility. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Eligibility"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "eligibility" (pronounced e'lijubi"lutē)
8	-j u b i" l u t ē	legibility.
7	-u b i" l u t ē	ability, acceptability, accessibility, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, durability, electability, enforceability, fallibility, feasibility, flammability, flexibility, gullibility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incompatibility, indestructibility, inevitability, infallibility, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, sensibility, stability, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, variability, viability, visibility, vulnerability.
6	-b i" l u t ē	immobility, mobility, nobility.
5	-i" l u t ē	agility, civility, docility, ductility, facility, fertility, fragility, futility, gentility, hostility, humility, incivility, infertility, motility, nonutility, senility, sterility, tranquility, utility, versatility, virility, volatility.
4	-l u t ē	abnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality.
3	-u t ē	absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Eligibility

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-i-i-i-l-l-t-y"
	-1 letter: legibility.
	-3 letters: eligibly.
	-4 letters: legibly.
	-5 letters: billet, billie, giblet, gillie, glibly, illite.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-g-i-i-i-i-l-l-t-y"
	+1 letter: illegibility.
	+2 letters: ineligibility, negligibility, reeligibility.
	+4 letters: intelligibility.
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