merit-based

English

Adjective

merit-based

  1. (education) Derived from one's academic or extracurricular achievements rather than one's financial need.
    Coordinate term: need-based
    • 2019 May 20, Jerry Kammer, “Pelosi's Anti-Merit Metaphor for Governance”, in Center for Immigration Studies‎[1]:
      Last week, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected as “condescending” President Trump’s proposal for a more merit-based immigration policy, she provided a metaphor not just for the shattered condition of Washington’s governance of immigration, but also for the Democratic Party’s ideologically rigid disavowal of all principles of immigration constraint.
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