qualification

Noun

qualification (countable and uncountable, plural qualifications)

1. The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc.
   • Qualification for this organization is extraordinarily difficult.
2. An ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training.
   • What are your qualifications for this job?
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.
   • I accept your offer, but with the following qualification.
   • Before a vowel (as in rib, brake) r is usually pronounced as a fricative consonant by all groups of speakers. But the qualification 'usually' is necessary, for the Negroes tend to weaken r after a consonant; and they omit it, as do illiterate white speakers, in throat, throw, through.1937, Oma Stanley, “III. The Consonants”, in The Speech of East Texas (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 2), New York: Columbia University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 7, page 63
5. (obsolete) A quality or attribute.
   • 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