In a sentence
Six example sentences with prospective, each labelled with its topic.
Every prospective hire meets the whole team for lunch, because the founders want to know how they behave off script.
Startups
The firm keeps a model of every prospective project, so clients can see the building years before ground is broken.
Architecture
A prospective study follows healthy volunteers forward for a decade, recording what happens instead of asking them to remember it.
Medicine
Analysts modelled prospective earnings for the next five years, and the share price moved on money nobody had yet earned.
Finance
The court gave the rule prospective effect only, so contracts signed before the ruling kept their old terms.
Law
A prospective buyer toured the factory twice before asking to see the order book for the coming year.
Business
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Found in these word lists
Found in 4 published word lists
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE WordsRecognized
- PrepScholar 357 GRE WordsRecognized
Each source is a published word list that contains prospective. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.