eligible

éligible, admissible

Autorisé à participer ou à recevoir quelque chose parce qu’on remplit les conditions requises.

En anglais simple : Allowed to take part or receive something because you meet the rules or conditions.

• Are you eligible for a refund?
• Only local students are eligible to enter.
• She became eligible for the grant last year.

Comment l'utiliser : eligible for something (You may be eligible for a discount.); eligible to do something (Residents over eighteen are eligible to vote.)

Synonymes : qualified

Contraires : ineligible

Expressions courantes : eligible for something, eligible to vote, eligible applicants

bon à marier

Considéré comme un bon partenaire à épouser, souvent pour sa richesse ou sa position sociale.

En anglais simple : Considered a good person to marry, often because of money or social position.

• He was an eligible bachelor.
• Every eligible young man received an invitation to the ball.
• Her family considered the wealthy doctor highly eligible.

Synonymes : desirable

Expressions courantes : eligible bachelor, eligible young man