Usually means: Potential candidate for future opportunity.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word prospect:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. prospect: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. prospect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prospect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prospect: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prospect: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prospect, prospect: Wordnik
  7. prospect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. prospect: Wiktionary
  9. prospect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prospect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prospect: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prospect: Dictionary.com
  13. prospect (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prospect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prospect (disambiguation), Prospect (film), Prospect (magazine), Prospect (marketing), Prospect (sports), Prospect (trade union), Prospect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prospect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prospect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prospect: Rhymezone
  19. prospect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. prospect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. prospect: Free Dictionary
  22. prospect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prospect: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. prospect: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. prospect: Finance-Glossary.com
  5. Prospect (band), Prospect (group), prospect: Legal dictionary
  6. Prospect (band), Prospect (group), prospect: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prospect (band), Prospect (group), prospect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PROSPECT: Acronym Finder
  2. prospect: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prospect, prospect: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Prospect: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See prospected as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
noun:  A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
noun:  A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
noun:  Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
noun:  The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
noun:  The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
noun:  A hope; a hopeful.
noun:  (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
noun:  (sales) A potential client or customer.
noun:  (music) The façade of an organ.
verb:  (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
verb:  (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
noun:  A census-designated place in Jackson County, Oregon, United States.
noun:  An inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
noun:  The City of Prospect, a local government area in Adelaide which includes the suburb.

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