Definition of "qualification"

qualification

/ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural qualifications
1. The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc.
2. An ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training.
3. (UK) A certificate, diploma, or degree awarded after successful completion of a course, training, or exam.
4. A clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation.
5. (obsolete) A quality or attribute.
  Quotations
  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 Bees

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