ineligible

Etymology

From French inéligible.

adj

  1. Not eligible; forbidden to do something.
    Employees of the promoter are ineligible to enter the competition.

noun

  1. One who is not eligible.
    However, migration of workers from the ineligible population into the eligible population also changes the composition of the ineligibles. 2002, Martin Feldstein, A. J. Auerbach, Handbook of Public Economics, page 1227

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