qualification

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkwɑlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

qualification (countable and uncountable, plural qualifications)

1. The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc. [from 16th c.]

   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. [from 17th c.]

   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. [from 16th c.]

   I accept your offer, but with the following qualification.

   • 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:

     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. (obsolete) A quality or attribute. [17th–19th c.]
   • 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:

     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.

• qualify
• certification

• clarification

Inherited from Middle French qualification, from Medieval Latin quālificātiō.

• IPA^(key): /ka.li.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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qualification f (plural qualifications)

1. qualification (all senses)

• qualifier

• → German: Qualifikation
  • → Russian: квалифика́ция (kvalifikácija)
    • → Georgian: კვალიფიკაცია (ḳvalipiḳacia)

• “qualification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012