qualification

plural qualifications

1. countableuncountableThe act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc.First known use 16th c.

   Qualification for this organization is extraordinarily difficult.

2. countableuncountableAn ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training.First known use 17th c.

   What are your qualifications for this job?

3. UKcountableuncountableA certificate, diploma, or degree awarded after successful completion of a course, training, or exam.
4. countableuncountableA clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation.First known use 16th c.

   I accept your offer, but with the following qualification.

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   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. countableobsoleteuncountableA quality or attribute.First known use 17th–19th c.

   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