ENTRANT


Meaning of ENTRANT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

mature

Among our sample were six engineers who, with differing motives, had been mature entrants to the profession.

Meanwhile, the number of mature entrants to higher education has risen by 65 percent since 1979.

An additional factor in considering the question of definition is that by far the majority of non-traditional entrants are also mature entrants.

This difference was explained largely by the higher rate of withdrawal for non academic reasons for mature entrants .

Others presumably went into employment thus joining the pool of potential young mature age entrants .

Establish training courses for mature entrants .

The second area of contention was the treatment of mature entrants .

new

A new entrant , joining in July 1960, had devilled for all but one of the dozen or so lawyers by Christmas.

My public school is under state mandate to conduct a screening for new entrants , and kindergarten children fall into this category.

These people will be highly attractive to would-be new entrants , who are expected to head-hunt them.

There may be an age ceiling for new entrants .

The Inns now contribute £1.5 million per year by way of scholarships to new entrants .

A new entrant into a creative department can expect to be doing such jobs.

The new entrant in this category, and one who interests me a lot, is Fred Couples.

Introducing renewable limited-term tenancies for agricultural land, encouraging new entrants to farming.

potential

Therefore the possibility of there being a natural monopoly is intimately related to the assumptions regarding potential entrant behaviour.

In the previous chapter we hypothesized that potential entrants assume that the industry price will not be affected by their entry.

Firms may use advertising to defend their existing position or to signal to potential entrants that incursions will be challenged.

If this will always happen, potential entrants will be deterred.

The basic idea is that sunk costs shift profit outcomes in the post-entry game so that a potential entrant will be deterred.

■ VERB

attract

No Women's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix.

Rapid market growth and sector under-capacity encouraged Pilkingtons to expand and attracted new entrants to the marketplace without adverse effects on profits.

It's well worth submitting entries to minor competitions as they often attract very few entrants giving high chances of success.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Davis was selected from 200,000 entrants to win the trip to the Super Bowl.

The winning entrant will receive a scholarship to the famous college of art and a year's supply of artist's materials.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Congratulations to the winners, commiserations to other entrants and thanks to Peugeot for sponsoring the competition.

Employment prospects were also at least as good and in some cases slightly better than for school leaver entrants.

Firms may use advertising to defend their existing position or to signal to potential entrants that incursions will be challenged.

Introducing renewable limited-term tenancies for agricultural land, encouraging new entrants to farming.

Many executives who leave their jobs transfer to other executive or managerial positions, limiting openings for new entrants.

The 61 entrants were informed of the limit last week.

The project seeks to chart the speed of reaction by entrants to profitable opportunities, and documents the principal barriers to entry.

The registration statistics revealed only 4.5% as non-standard entrants, and this may be a slightly exaggerated figure.

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