requalify

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verb

To qualify again; to renew a qualification.

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Meanings

verbrequalify (third-person singular simple present requalifies, present participle requalifying, simple past and past participle requalified)

present singular third person requalifies · participle present requalifying · participle past requalified · past requalified

  1. To qualify again; to renew a qualification.

    Furthermore, she was told at the airport, she would not earn elite-status qualifying miles for the trip, which she had been counting on to hit the 25,000-mile minimum requirement to requalify for next year.

    2007 November 27, Joe Sharkey, “One Holiday Down, More Headaches to Go”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishqualify
  7. Englishrequalify

From re- + qualify.

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APA

requalify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/requalify

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “requalify,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/requalify.

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