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Vinony

qualification

noun

  1. support for workers to obtain skills
  2. Suitability of a person for a job or a specific task
  3. measure up to
  4. define (further), further defining, hedging, putting conditions on
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ / /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French qualification in the 1540s, which in turn derives from Medieval Latin quālificātiō. By surface analysis, qual(ify) + -ification.

  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. 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.”

  5. 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.”