eligibility

eligible | American Dictionary

eligible
adjective
us/ˈel·ɪ·dʒə·bəl/
having the necessary qualities or fulfilling the necessary conditions:
an eligible voter
You have to be employed six months to be eligible for medical benefits.
If you refer to a man or a woman as eligible, you mean the man or woman is not married and is desirable as a marriage partner:
The magazine listed 50 of the world’s most eligible bachelors.

eligibility

noun[ U ]us/ˌel·ə·dʒəˈbɪl·ət̬·i/

eligible | Business English

eligible
adjective
uk /ˈelɪdʒəbl/us
allowed to do or receive something because you satisfy certain conditions:
eligible citizens/customers/employeesThe company will offer its 104,000 eligible employees a stock option scheme this year.
eligible to do sthNearly two-thirds of the company's current employees will be eligible to retire within five years.
Of 9,475 students, 1,323 were eligible for a scholarship.

Examples of eligible

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A total of 92 % of eligible infants were recruited.
Administrative staff in enhanced and usual care practices completed an 8-hour training session on recruiting eligible patients using a two-stage screening process.
Of the initially eligible students, 95.3 % participated in the study.
Typically, only full-time employees are eligible for benefits.
To be eligible to participate, families had to have at least one child and both parents had to work outside the home.
Patients were not eligible if they had used systemic glucocorticoids up to one year prior to the study.
In short, in some areas, social policy could treat both resident and non-resident parents as eligible parents for the one child.
So, if the average daily eligible population was 240 000 over the course of a year, the average apparent adjusted population was also 240 000.
They also worried that the addition of the working poor would expand by millions the numbers of those eligible for assistance.
That is, those people who have not expressly opposed donating their organs are considered eligible for donation.
As with national schemes, local agencies were only able to provide for a small fraction of potentially eligible claimants.
Eligible recipients are insured full benefits and thus all obligatory costs eventually must be met.
Furthermore, comparison of participants and the eligible population show that sample attrition is an unlikely source of confounding in this investigation.
The sample of 190 caregivers constituted 97 % of eligible caregivers (six refused to participate).
Some of them would however be eligible for a contributory pension that is granted at 70 with only 15 years of contribution.
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