eligible
/ˈɛl.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/ adjective B2- Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something.
- Worthy of being chosen (for marriage). · an eligible bachelor
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All red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age of twenty-one years, are eligible.
“‘Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one of the vacancies.’
A military life is not what I was intended for, but circumstances have now made it eligible.
It now first struck her, that _she_ was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being the mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors.
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