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prospect English

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prospect Noun

— A prospect is what you think will happen in the future. There's a good prospect of this building being converted into a school. Immigrants face the prospect of having to accept unskilled jobs at lower wages. There is little or no prospect of a new station being opened up on the east coast. — Your prospects are your chances of moving forward in your job or in your life. So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a teacher. A new place offered some prospect of new beginnings. We are very worried about her prospects. — A prospect is somebody that think will do well in the future. At 18, she is one of Britain's best prospects for an Olympic medal in Barcelona this summer. — A prospect is somebody who might be a customer or worker in the future. Your best prospects are your previous customers.

prospect Verb

— If you prospect for something valuable, such as gold or oil, you search an area for it. Anglo-United was not the only company prospecting for gold in the early eighties.

prospect

— noun the possibility of future success his prospects as a writer are excellent — noun (= expectation) belief about (or mental picture of) the future — noun (= candidate) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) — verb explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals — verb search for something desirable prospect a job — noun (= prognosis) a prediction of the course of a disease — noun (= view) the visual percept of a region the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views

Synonyms prospect synonyms

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prospect English » English

outlook view vista expectation explore scene hope chance perspective investigate survey study research opportunity examine candidate anticipation sight scenery promise possibility landscape expectancy aspect viewpoint situation search scrutinize prognosis point of view panorama medical prognosis look-out look for likelihood lead forecast expectance write-in candidate write-in wildcat vision visibility unobstructed view standpoint spy spectacle seek search for scope

Topics prospect topics

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Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

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Expect

Conjugation prospect conjugation

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prospect · verb

Examples prospect examples

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Simple sentences

Tom was afraid of the prospect of failure.
It is a depressing prospect.
It's a depressing prospect.

Movie subtitles

What strange characters are met on the Prospect!
That's a nice prospect, Mr. Kirby.
The prospect terrifies me.
Now look, Keyes, I've got to call on a prospect.
Having you in my family is a pretty dismal prospect.
The prospect of picking up a prize or two, eh?
Body of.. What a prospect.
The prospect of taking up permanent residence in the shoebox was somewhat unnerving.
Up to the moment, no, but I'm beginning to find the prospect very alluring.
No desert island castaway ever faced so bleak a prospect.
What a nauseating prospect.
You're not much of a prospect, Miss Clara.
It's a terrible prospect. I am to be made governor.
Came out West to be a cowboy, prospect for gold, fight Indians, anything.
The prospect of a good dinner, perhaps.
So there's the prospect that the woman your friend is asking about can leave the prison in this way soon.
I pay him when he brings me a prospect.
Long time ago. Now look, Keyes, I've got to call on a prospect.
I have to show the house to a prospect.
I try to get excited at the prospect of settling down minding my own business and making good but it only increases my urge to move on.
I am going to look out of the window to observe the beauty of the prospect.
I understand you have a job in prospect.
That jail doesn't look like 125 Prospect Terrace.
Well, looking her over casual like I've been, I'd say she's a whale of a prospect.
And to be king stands not within the prospect of relief, no more than to be Cawdor.
She has the prospect of 30,000 a year.
Prospect Park?
You should see the dogwood blossoms right here in Prospect Park in May.
A noble prospect for an American, Your Grace.
Sir, the most noble prospect an American sees is the ship that will carry him to England.
Here's a prospect.
In my opinion there is no prospect of having the proceedings quashed.
I don't relish the prospect. but if that's what you want, that's the way it's going to be.
It's a terrible prospect.
That's what you say every time, and I admit it's a very attractive prospect.
It's a good prospect.
This matter ended up in court against my wishes, and our prospect now is a jailhouse wedding.

News and current affairs

As a result, the new pasture land or farmland is soon abandoned, with no prospect for regeneration of the original forest and its unique ecosystems.
A new approach is needed: the European Union should use the prospect of European integration as the way to promote regional integration.
With the prospect of entry into the EU, national markets matter less.
Unions, too, are resisting the necessary wage reductions, and public and private debtors fear the prospect of insolvency if their assets and revenues are assessed at a lower value, while their debts remain unchanged.
The prospect of a truly global community of nations working together to achieve the greater good for all is indeed exciting.
Some Americans react emotionally to that prospect, though it would be ahistorical to believe that the US will have a preponderant share of power resources forever.
Above all, the rest of the world has looked on with alarm as the US holds more than 600 men at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba without access to family or counsel, and without prospect of an impartial hearing or trial.
But the need for spending cuts also raises the prospect that the US might be unable to finance a military shift toward the Asia-Pacific region - or, worse, that it will be forced to retrench there.
Generals ordered to use chemical weapons would have to reckon with the prospect that the regime could, actually, fall, and that they then might find themselves on trial for war crimes.
At the same time, the prospect of higher US inflation and massively higher US public debt levels must eventually weigh on the dollar, as does the still worrisome US trade deficit.
The decline in government bond prices has exposed the banks' undercapitalization, while the prospect that governments will have to finance banks' recapitalization has driven up risk premiums on government bonds.
Likewise, the appeal of war has ruled out the prospect of serious negotiations between Israel, Syria, and Lebanon.
Perhaps when we have one world government, it will make sense to have one world currency. But, even setting aside the equilibrating benefits of flexible currencies, the prospect of a single, omnipotent central bank is not particularly appealing.
Japan plus Russia plus India, with the US lending a helpful hand, would not only extinguish any prospect of a Sino-centric Asia, but would create the ultimate strategic nightmare for China.
Abroad, Egyptian lawmakers were so exercised over the prospect of the French head of state sharing a bed with his girlfriend that several vented their disapproval on the floor of the parliament.
But this benign prospect was undermined by the violence needed to maintain the Jewish state and enable the emergence of a Palestinian one.
A recent study by Andy Haldane and others at the Bank of England casts doubt on the prospect of a return to the status quo ante.
For most of us, unless we remain seriously overweight in financial stocks, this may not be a bad prospect.
As taxpayers had already put huge sums into rescuing failing banks, with the prospect of more to come, a transparent process to reveal how the money was being used was imperative.
Nor is there any prospect that someone else will intervene in Sudan to make an arrest.
On the other hand, the missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, and the prospect of NATO accession for Georgia and Ukraine, assume confrontation where this was not at all necessary.
In the course of the summer, the prospect of a perilous fall has become only more likely.
Indeed, a Bosnia-type scenario can no longer be excluded, while the prospect of the Syrian government's loss of control over its chemical weapons poses an immediate threat of military intervention by Turkey, Israel, or the US.
After all, the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran would most likely exacerbate violent conflict and a nuclear arms race in the region.

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