prospectives

Noun

prospective (plural prospectives)

1. (obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
   • the whole Scene of affairs was changed from Spain to France there now lay the prospective1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers
2. (obsolete) A perspective glass.
   • [T]hey [two pavillions] were trimmed on the inside with rich armour and military furniture, hanged up as upon the walls; and behind the tents there were represented, in prospective, the tops of divers other tents, as if it had been a camp.1613 March 2 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Masque of the Inner-Temple and Gray’s Inn, Gray’s Inn and the Inner-Temple; […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and...
3. (informal, often, plural) A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
   • Would you like to show the prospective around?

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