dequalifications

Noun

dequalification (usually uncountable, plural dequalifications)

1. (usually) A change so as to require less skill and knowledge, often leading to less responsibility and control.
   • Middle management is particularly threatened with dequalification (reduction in decision-making, supervision and control) .1990, Federico Butera, Vittorio Di Martino, Eberhard Köhler, Technological Development and the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
2. (usually) The process by which someone is forced to work below the level of their skills and qualifications.
   • Along the same lines, it appears that by accepting some degree of occupational dequalification in relation to real educational level, and a more or less precarious situation, most young people managed to find work after leaving school, although for the most part by themselves, the ANPE having...1978, R. A. de Moor, Changing Tertiary Education in Modern European Society: Report, page 187
3. (usually) The change in status from qualifying (for something) to not qualifying.
   • Thus, it is impossible to create any objective standard as to what particular conditions would justify dequalification of the HMO.1976, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health, Health Maintenance Organization Amendments 1975, page 407
4. (usually) The removal of distinctions; homogenization
   • This 'dequalification', which is equivalent to a loss of memory, is also a cultural process.2012, L. Augustin-Jean, H. Ilbert, N. Saavedra-Rivano, Geographical Indications and International Agricultural Trade