applicant

English

Etymology

From Latin applicans, present participle of applicare. See apply.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæp.lə.kɪnt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

applicant (plural applicants)

1. One who applies for something; one who makes a request; a petitioner.
   • Our job advertisement attracted seven applicants.
   1. (specific, law) A party who initiates legal proceedings against another party.
2. The third coordinate (or z-coordinate) in a three-dimensional coordinate system.

   Synonym: applicate

Derived terms

• nonapplicant
• reapplicant

 

Translations

one who applies

• Arabic: مُقَدِّم الطَلَب (muqaddim aṭ-ṭalab), مُتَقَدِّم (ar) (mutaqaddim)
• Armenian: հայտատու (haytatu)
• Catalan: sol·licitant m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 申請人／申请人 (zh) (shēnqǐngrén), 求職者／求职者 (zh) (qiúzhízhě) (job applicant)

• Danish: ansøger (da)
• Dutch: aanvrager (nl) m, sollicitant (nl) m (for a job)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hakija (fi), anoja (fi)
• French: demandeur (fr) m, candidat (fr) m
• Galician: solicitante m or f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bewerber (de) m, Bewerberin (de) f, Antragsteller (de) m, Beantrager m, Beantragender m
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: kérelmező (hu), jelentkező (hu)
• Italian: candidato (it), richiedente (it)
• Japanese: 志願者 (しがんしゃ, shigansha), 応募者 (おうぼしゃ, ōbosha), 申し込み者 (もうしこみしゃ, mōshikomisha), 申し立て人 (もうしたてにん, mōshitatenin), 申請人 (しんせいにん, shinseinin)
• Korean: 응모자(應募者) (eungmoja), 출원자(出願者) (churwonja), 신청자(申請者) (sincheongja), 지원자(志願者) (jiwonja), 후보자(候補者) (ko) (huboja)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: applyitchant m
• Norwegian: søker (no)
• Polish: kandydat (pl) m, kandydatka (pl) f
• Portuguese: requerente (pt) m or f, candidato (pt)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: заяви́тель (ru) m (zajavítelʹ), соиска́тель (ru) m (soiskátelʹ), претенде́нт (ru) m (pretendént), кандида́т (ru) m (kandidát), проси́тель (ru) m (prosítelʹ), пода́тель (ru) m (podátelʹ) (заявления), апплика́нт m (applikánt), аплика́нт m (aplikánt)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: solicitante m or f, peticionario, candidato (es) m, postulante m or f
• Ukrainian: зая́вник m (zajávnyk)

party who initiates legal proceedings

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: eiser (nl) m, aanklager (nl) m
• Finnish: kantaja (fi)

z-coordinate — see applicate

Latin

Verb

applicant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of applicō