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Definition of Prospective
1. Adjective. Of or concerned with or related to the future. "The statute is solely prospective in operation"
Definition of Prospective
1. a. Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective.
2. n. The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
Definition of Prospective
1. Adjective. Likely or expected to happen or become. ¹
2. Adjective. Anticipated in the near or far future. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prospective
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prospective
Literary usage of Prospective
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"prospective breach. Where a party to a bilateral contract agrees to perform before
the other, there seems to be recognized no ..."
2. Pure Economics by Maffeo Pantaleoni (1898)
"That the Origin of Interest is not the Difference between the Value of Present
and prospective Commodities One is apt to explain the price paid by the ..."
3. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"This will be of especial value to the prospective teacher since he will later
use the project method to such an extent in his teaching work. ..."
4. Agriculture in the City: A Key to Sustainability in Havana, Cuba by María Caridad Cruz, Roberto Sánchez Medina (2003)
"Evaluation of the prospective use of the land. • Integration of the prospective
and current use of the land (including urban agriculture). ..."
5. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown (1824)
"One order still remains to be considered by us,—the emotions, which I have
denominated prospective, from their reference to objects as future. ..."
6. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown (1824)
"When I began the consideration of our prospective emotions, those emotions which
regard the future, and which may regard it either with desire or fear,—I ..."
7. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1867)
"It is decided that the party must recover all Ins damages, present and prospective,
in one action.1 2. But in another case,2 it was said by the court, ..."
8. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind. by Thomas Brown (1826)
"One order still remains to be considered by us,—the emotions, which I have
denominated prospective, from their reference to objects as future. ..."
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