means A prospect is a future possibility or person worth pursuing — a likely customer, a promising candidate, or a chance of something happening.

from From Latin prospectus, 'a view, a looking forward,' from prospicere — pro- 'forward' plus specere 'to look' (the same specere that watches over inspect, spectator, and suspicious). It first meant a literal view, the scene laid out before your eyes, then drifted toward the figurative: the future you can see coming. The mining sense — 'to prospect for gold' — grew from that same forward-looking gaze, the prospector scanning the ground for what might lie ahead.