applicants
- 1Plural of applicant.
Hundreds of applicants submitted resumes for the single open position.
The committee shortlisted five applicants after the first round of reviews.
Note
A plural that carries every use of applicant with it. Most often it means people asking for something: a job, a place, a grant. In legal writing, applicants are the parties who start proceedings against another. In coordinate geometry, the word can name the third, or z-, coordinate in a three-dimensional system. Context, not form, tells these apart, and all of them take a plural verb.
applicants is a form of applicant
applicant, noun: A person who formally requests something, such as a job, a loan, or admission to a program. Full entry
- Forms
- applicantapplicants plural
- Spelling
- applicant → applicants: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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