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Eligibility may refer to: The right to run for office (in elections), sometimes called passive suffrage or voting eligibility; Desirability as a marriage partner, as in the term eligible bachelor; Validity for participation, as in eligibility to enter a Competition; Eligibility for the NBA draft; Eligible receiver, gridiron football rules for ...
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
A book of synonyms, often also containing antonyms. An example is Roget's Thesaurus. In database searching, a thesaurus strategy is to use multiple iterations to search for related words and generate result. The database will often suggest synonyms and related words to try. [13] Truncation The shortening of a search word, field, or record.
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Training and Service Act.. The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke–Wadsworth Act, Pub. L. 76–783, 54 Stat. 885, enacted September 16, 1940, [1] was the first peacetime conscription in United States history.
A U.S. military appeals court has ruled that plea deals related to the man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two accomplices can proceed after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ...
The Oklahoma City Thunder and Alex Caruso agreed to a four-year, $81 million contract extension on Sunday night, his agent told ESPN’s Shams Charania. The Thunder announced the extension on ...
Also known as "censitary suffrage", it is the opposite of equal suffrage, meaning that the votes cast by those eligible to vote are not equal, but weighed differently according to the person's income or rank in society (e.g., people who do not own property or whose income is lower than a given amount are barred from voting; or people with ...