noun
applicant
CEFR B2
a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission
In a sentence
Six example sentences with applicant, each labelled with its topic.
Each applicant for the clerkship submitted a writing sample, and the judge read all forty before scheduling interviews.
Law
The hiring manager called every applicant back within a week, even the ones she had already decided against.
Business
Two hundred applicants wanted the single engineering slot, so the founders built a short coding puzzle to narrow the field.
Startups
The bank asks every mortgage applicant for three months of statements, then checks whether the deposit came from savings.
Finance
Each grant applicant gets two pages to explain the experiment, and reviewers rarely read past the first.
Science
The teaching hospital sees each residency applicant for a full day, including a shift shadowing a senior doctor.
Medicine
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