qualification
Pluralqualifications
- 1A skill or training that makes someone a good fit for a job.
Like having the right key that opens a particular door.
Patience is an important qualification for any good teacher.
He lacked the qualification needed to lead the team.
Similarcredential, skill, attribute, asset, accomplishment
- 2A certificate, diploma, or degree given after you finish a course or pass an exam.
Like a badge that shows you finished the training.
She earned a qualification in childcare at her local college.
You need a qualification before you can work as an electrician.
Similarcertificate, diploma, credential, certification
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- 3A condition that limits or changes what something means.
Like the small note that changes a deal a little.
She agreed to help, but added one qualification: she had to leave by five.
His promise came with an important qualification.
Similarreservation, condition, proviso, caveat, limitation
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- 4The act of becoming able or allowed to join or take part in something.
Like passing the test that lets you into the next round.
Her qualification for the finals surprised everyone.
The team celebrated their qualification for the World Cup.
Similareligibility
Oppositedisqualification, elimination
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Less common meaning
- 5A quality or feature that a person or thing has.
To shew, that these Qualfications, which we all pretend to be asham'd of, are the great support of a flourishing Society has been the subject of the foregoing Poem.
1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the BeesHere, Qualfications means qualities or features that people have.Note
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Origin
This word came into English in the 1540s from Middle French qualification, which came from Medieval Latin quālificātiō.