hopeful prospect

collocation in English

meaningsofhopefulandprospect

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hopeful
adjective
uk
/ˈhəʊp.fəl/us
/ˈhoʊp.fəl/
having ...
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prospect
noun
uk
/ˈprɒs.pekt/us
/ˈprɑː.spekt/
the possibility that something good might happen in ...
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(Definition ofhopefulandprospectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is not a veryhopefulprospect.
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He was quick to acknowledge a brighter, morehopefulprospectin the passage which followed.
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The mosthopefulprospectis perhaps nuclear fusion, but it is also the furthest away and the most expensive.
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It is not therefore a veryhopefulprospect.
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At the same time, it will enable us to help to create a much morehopefulprospectfor an efficient industry in the future.
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I hope that is not the way he thinks silently, because it is not a veryhopefulprospect.
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If that cannot be managed by the officials, it is not a veryhopefulprospectfor the house-owners of the country.
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There is ahopefulprospect, if all goes well, of receiving a further 500,000 tons in the next three months.
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The latter is the mosthopefulprospect, and it is only in that third alternative that we can really influence a decision.
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We believe that it is ahopefulprospectfor the future so long as the nations of the world can be kept collaborating together.
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The mosthopefulprospectis that they might be admitted and distributed to people who need them.
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The mosthopefulprospectwould appear to be the inculcation by the progressive element among the employers of a more enlightened outlook.
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Thishopefulprospectdepends to a great extent on the willingness of those in the industry themselves to make changes.
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We know that steps were taken, that negotiations were entered into, which, for the time being, seemed to have ahopefulprospect.
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I think that that is a mosthopefulprospectfor the future.
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I think, myself, it may well be in the immediate future that the mosthopefulprospectis the prospect of regional pacts.
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It is needed to give a lead away from militarylaissez-faireand towards that morehopefulprospectof world peace under a system of world law.
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You gave us a veryhopefulprospect.
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That is not a veryhopefulprospect.
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It is not a veryhopefulprospect.
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