prospect

Definition

Examples

The prospect of a merger made many employees nervous.

Word Family

Synonyms

• outlooka habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
• potentialthe inherent capacity for coming into being
• candidatea politician who is running for public office

Collocations

• Easy excited about future career prospects
  to excited about future career prospects, meaning to arouse or elicit a feeling
• Medium bleak economic prospects for the quarter
  describing bleak economic prospects for the quarter (offering little or no hope; ; ; - J.M.Synge)
• Hard weigh the prospect of regulatory intervention
  to weigh the prospect of regulatory intervention, meaning to have a certain weight
• Very Hard prospect for lucrative mineral deposits in uncharted lands
  to prospect for lucrative mineral deposits in uncharted lands, meaning to search for something desirable