Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of eligibility in any respect; the character of being unworthy to be selected or chosen; unfitness; inexpediency: as, the ineligibility of a suitor.
- noun Specifically, the condition of being ineligible to a specified office or employment; disqualification for election or choice: as, the ineligibility of a candidate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being ineligible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
ineligible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality or state of being ineligible
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Examples
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But if Lorgat is right, all the talk about the three players returning to Test cricket after their period of "ineligibility" expires in Sept 2015 - provided certain conditions are met - is hypothetical.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The season of misfortune continued Tuesday for the Gophers men's basketball team when the NCAA denied Al Nolen's appeal of his academic ineligibility, meaning he'll miss the rest of the season.
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The season of misfortune continued Tuesday for the Gophers men's basketball team when the NCAA denied Al Nolen's appeal of his academic ineligibility, meaning he'll miss the rest of the season.
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The season of misfortune continued Tuesday for the Gophers men's basketball team when the NCAA denied Al Nolen's appeal of his academic ineligibility, meaning he'll miss the rest of the season.
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The IRS online tool also can report other issues, such as ineligibility because income was too high or the returning of an undeliverable payment to the IRS.
WDEF News 12 - 2009
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I don't generally like writing about what other writers wrote, but in this case, I feel like it bears mentioning that the report on Wall's "ineligibility" came from
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Of course, the only allowed ground of ineligibility under the Juries Act that would require a police check is a history of indictable offences.
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One historical point -- Esme cites Ouida Sebestyen's Words By Heart as one book that "makes an outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution to an African-American audience and to everyone else as well," thus making the Coretta Scott King Awards suffer for its ineligibility.
Archive 2009-01-01 Roger Sutton 2009
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One historical point -- Esme cites Ouida Sebestyen's Words By Heart as one book that "makes an outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution to an African-American audience and to everyone else as well," thus making the Coretta Scott King Awards suffer for its ineligibility.
Who Can Win What? Roger Sutton 2009
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The Mustangs were picked to finish last in the Big West Conference, but they took sixth place and won a game in the conference tournament despite losing sophomore center Will Donahue after 10 games due to academic ineligibility.
Big West Conference 2010
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