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prospective

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pro·spec·tive  (pr-spktv)
adj.
1. Likely or expected to happen.
2. Likely to become or be: prospective clients.

pro·spective·ly adv.

prospective [prəˈspɛktɪv]
adj
1. looking towards the future
2. (prenominal) anticipated or likely
prospectively  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.prospective - of or concerned with or related to the future; "prospective earnings"; "a prospective mother"; "a prospective bride"; "the statute is solely prospective in operation"
future - yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him"
retrospective - concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification"

prospective
adjective
1. potential, possible, to come, about to be, upcoming, soon-to-be The story is a warning to other prospective buyers.
2. expected, coming, future, approaching, likely, looked-for, intended, awaited, hoped-for, anticipated, forthcoming, imminent, destined, eventual, on the cards The terms of the prospective deal are spelled out clearly.
Translations
prospective [prəsˈpektɪv] ADJ
1. (= likely, possible) [customer, candidate] → posible
2. (= future) [son-in-law, home, legislation] → futuro; [heir] → presunto
prospective [prəˈspɛktɪv] adj
(= possible) → potentiel(le)
(= future) → futur(e) before n
prospective
adj attr (= likely to happen) journey, returnvoraussichtlich; (= future) son-in-law, ownerzukünftig; buyerinteressiert; prospective candidateKandidat(in) m(f); all the prospective casesalle infrage or in Frage kommenden Fälle; prospective earningsvoraussichtliche Einkünfte pl
prospective [prəsˈpɛktɪv] adj (buyer) → probabile; (legislation, son-in-law) → futuro/a
prospective [prəsˈpɛktɪv] adj (buyer) → probabile; (legislation, son-in-law) → futuro/a


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He proceeded to give his prospective son-in-law a detailed lecture concerning the mismanagement of the field hospitals at the front, and having disposed of that subject, he opened a broadside attack upon the Admiralty.
The title suggests all kinds of mysteries; a glance at the chapter-headings quickly confirms the suspicions already aroused, and the sub-title: "A Book for All and None", generally succeeds in dissipating the last doubts the prospective purchaser may entertain concerning his fitness for the book or its fitness for him.
In the matter of wills, personal qualities were subordinate to the great fundamental fact of blood; and to be determined in the distribution of your property by caprice, and not make your legacies bear a direct ratio to degrees of kinship, was a prospective disgrace that would have embittered her life.
 
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