Definition
to apply for (a job): to submit an application for, to request (a job)
Willy applied to the Delavigne Corporation for the position of security guard.
to apply (cream): to put (cream) on
(This rule only) applies for, to (new employees): (This rule is only) relevant to, applicable to (new employees)
- "Voting is mandatory down under, and the law is applied rigorously."
- "Stephanie : Hello, my name is being Stephanie Martin, I am applying for the stage."
- "Every week, over 600,000 people are applying for unemployment benefits."
- "I applied a different perfume on this baby."
- "Horatio : No, it is because he does a number one every time I touch him. I applied a perfume on this baby."
- "Only three candidates remain, and although I can no longer remember what job these people are applying for, they must be very good at something to make it to this stage, which is very encouraging."
- "Of all the candidates that applied, you're the least qualified, but the most handsome."
- "She's applying for US citizenship."
- "Janine : Well Brent, in light of recent job cuts, Radio Rhubarb has prepared some advice on what NOT to do when applying for a job."
- "Belinda has been applying it every morning, and is now looking much younger with some reduction of facial wrinkles."
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