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Prospective   /prəspˈɛktɪv/   Listen
adjective
Prospective  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective. (Obs.) "Time's long and dark prospective glass."
2.
Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; opposed to retrospective. "The French king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair."
3.
Being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit. "Points on which the promises, at the time of ordination, had no prospective bearing."


noun
Prospective  n.  
1.
The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
2.
A perspective glass. (Obs.)





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"Prospective" Quotes from Famous Books



... one moment since you arrived in Europe. They followed you to Paris, across Germany, and even into the hotel where our friend called upon you and where you are known as Mr. Smith." He paused an instant, and turning to the prince, added: "Tell him the prospective fate of ...
— Princess Zara • Ross Beeckman
... said—wandering around somebody else's property and picking up a few samples, as it were, to mix in with your own product? Or planting them where they can be found easily by a prospective buyer?" ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper
... always an influence to overstate, misstate, and be extravagant in the praise of a volume. But such extravagance always discounts itself in the mind of the reader, and experience has pretty definitely proved that what a prospective buyer wants is a straightforward concise indication of the story and its quality. A word of praise quoted from a review may help him make up his mind, yet he probably knows it is a pretty poor book of which some newspaper doesn't say "Holds the reader's interest from cover to cover" or "We hail ...
— The Building of a Book • Various
... me all the time," his prospective employer agreed. "Well, listen. My sister, Miss Van Teyl, arrives from Europe on the Lapland this evening. If she comes in or rings up, say I'm here and I want to see her ...
— The Pawns Count • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... He repeated Platt's threats, but was unable to make an impression. Roosevelt got up to go. "You know it means your ruin?" said the henchman solemnly. "Well, we will see about that," Roosevelt replied, and had nearly reached the door when the henchman, anxious to give the prospective victim a last chance, warned him that the Senator would open the fight on the next day, and keep it up to the bitter end. "Yes," replied the Governor; "good-night." And he was just going out, when the henchman rushed after him, calling, "Hold on! We accept. ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer


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