Usually means: Person applying for a position.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word applicant:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. applicant: Merriam-Webster
  2. applicant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. applicant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. applicant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. applicant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Applicant, applicant: Wordnik
  7. applicant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. applicant: Wiktionary
  9. applicant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. applicant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. applicant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Applicant, applicant: Dictionary.com
  13. applicant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Applicant (sketch), Applicant, The Applicant (poem): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Applicant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. applicant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. applicant: Rhymezone
  18. applicant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. applicant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. APPLICANT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. applicant: FreeDictionary.org
  22. applicant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. applicant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. applicant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. applicant: Merriam-Webster

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. applicant: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Credit Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of International Trade Terms (No longer online)
  4. applicant: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  One who applies for something; one who makes a request; a petitioner.
▸ noun:  (specific, law) A party who initiates legal proceedings against another party.
▸ noun:  The third coordinate (or z-coordinate) in a three-dimensional coordinate system.

Similar:
applier, petitionist, suitor, postulant, candidate, petitioner, supplicant, requestor, appellant, requestee, more...

Opposite:
employer, recruiter, interviewer, selector, hirer

Types:
entry-level, experienced, intern, recent graduate, career changer, internal candidate, external candidate, remote worker, part-time, more...

Phrases:
Applicant tracking system, job applicant, more...

Adjectives:
successful, first, such, qualified, new, individual, particular, white, female, second, black

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Similar:
applier, petitionist, suitor, postulant, candidate, petitioner, supplicant, requestor, appellant, requestee, more...

Opposite:
employer, recruiter, interviewer, selector, hirer

Types:
entry-level, experienced, intern, recent graduate, career changer, internal candidate, external candidate, remote worker, part-time, more...

Phrases:
Applicant tracking system, job applicant, more...

Adjectives:
successful, first, such, qualified, new, individual, particular, white, female, second, black



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