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PROSPECTIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or concerned with or related to the future
Example:
the statute is solely prospective in operation
Classified under:
Similar:
likely; potential (expected to become or be; in prospect)
future (effective in or looking toward the future)
Also:
future (yet to be or coming)
Antonym:
retrospective (concerned with or related to the past)
Context examples:
Specializes in the prospective procurement, preservation and distribution of human tissues for research.
(Cooperative Human Tissue Network, NCI Thesaurus)
However, the long-term impact of carbohydrate restriction on mortality is controversial with prospective research so far producing conflicting results.
(Moderate Carbohydrate Intake May be Best for Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
From just one whiff, these primates can tell which prospective partners have immune genes different from their own.
(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)
“Ours is the first large-scale prospective study to closely investigate the association between prenatal alcohol and tobacco exposure and the risk of SIDS,” said first author Amy J. Elliott, Ph.D., of the Avera Health Center for Pediatric & Community Research in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)
A formal document that describes a complete plan of research activity in the framework of a clinical study; specifically, the study objective(s), design, methodology, eligibility requests for prospective subjects and controls; intervention regimen(s), proposed methods of analysis of data; statistical considerations, and organization of the study.
(Clinical Study Protocol, NCI Thesaurus)
He did not like the laziness and the disinclination for sober, legitimate work of this prospective son-in-law of his, for whose ideas he had no respect and of whose nature he had no understanding.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The Clinical Research Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with assistance in identification of prospective patients and determination of patient interest and eligibility to participate in clinical trials, in procurement and maintenance of the informed consent process, coordination of follow-up visits in conformance with protocol, hospital admission and discharge planning, coordination and safe administration of investigational agents, toxicity monitoring and reporting in compliance within Cancer Center and FDA regulations and the guidelines of GCP.
(Clinical Research Support Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
I followed with lagging step, and thoughts busily bent on discovering a means of extrication; but he himself looked so composed and so grave also, I became ashamed of feeling any confusion: the evil—if evil existent or prospective there was—seemed to lie with me only; his mind was unconscious and quiet.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It is alternatively possible that you will have confidential meetings, perhaps with a prospective employer, a good time to do so.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Still, you will likely either receive the call this month or find out that your prospective employer has narrowed the list of most-qualified applicants.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
