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English
Etymology
From French inéligible.
Adjective
ineligible (comparative more ineligible, superlative most ineligible)
- Not eligible; forbidden to do something.
- Employees of the promoter are ineligible to enter the competition.
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Translations
not eligible; forbidden to do something
- Bulgarian: неподходящ (bg) (nepodhodjašt), неприемлив (bg) (nepriemliv)
- Catalan: inelegible
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 沒有資格的／没有资格的 (méiyǒu zīgé de), 不合格的 (bù hégé de)
- Finnish: kelpaamaton (fi)
- French: inéligible (fr)
- Galician: inelixible (gl)
- German: untauglich (de)
- Hungarian: nem jogosult, számba/szóba nem jöhető, nem megfelelő, el nem fogadható, alkalmatlan (hu), elfogadhatatlan (hu), kizárt (hu)
- Interlingua: ineligibile
- Italian: ineleggibile
- Japanese: 無資格の (ja) (mushikaku no), 不適任な (futekinin na), できない (dekinai)
- Portuguese: inelegível (pt)
- Serbo-Croatian: neovlašten (sh)
- Spanish: inelegible
- Urdu: نااہل (nāahal)
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Noun
ineligible (plural ineligibles)
- One who is not eligible.
2002, Martin Feldstein, A. J. Auerbach, Handbook of Public Economics, page 1227:However, migration of workers from the ineligible population into the eligible population also changes the composition of the ineligibles.