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Plural of applicant

regular plural

The plural of applicant is applicants.

Forms of applicant

Singularapplicant /ˈæp.lɪ.kənt/
Pluralapplicants
Countablecountable

Applicants in a sentence

  • Our job advertisement attracted seven applicants.
  • The applicants kept filing into the room until it was full.From the entry file
  • There were dozens and dozens of applicants before the job was posted.From the entry dozen
  • Out of a pool of 20 applicants, only three made the cut.From the entry make the cut
  • The university awarded five sponsorships to the five most qualified applicants.From the entry sponsorship

Meaning of applicant

  1. noun One who applies for something; one who makes a request; a petitioner.
  2. noun A party who initiates legal proceedings against another party.
  3. noun The third coordinate (or z-coordinate) in a three-dimensional coordinate system.

Full definition of applicant

Questions about the plural of applicant

What is the plural of applicant?
The plural of applicant is applicants.
Is applicant countable?
Applicant is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: applicant (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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