qualification

A skill, quality, experience, or training that makes you suitable for a job or activity.

• Patience is an important qualification for teaching.
• Does she have the right qualifications for the job?
• His medical qualification helped him find work abroad.

How to use it: qualification for something (Experience with children is a useful qualification for this job.)

Similar words: credential

Common phrases: qualification for something, necessary qualification, professional qualification, teaching qualification

The process of meeting the requirements to enter a competition, hold a position, or receive something.

• Qualification for the tournament begins next month.
• The team celebrated its qualification for the finals.
• Automatic qualification depends on your league position.

How to use it: qualification for something (The win secured qualification for the final.)

Common phrases: qualification for something, automatic qualification, qualification round

A condition or added statement that limits what a claim, agreement, or promise means.

• I support the plan with one qualification.
• She accepted his explanation without qualification.
• He added a qualification about the cost of delivery.

Similar words: reservation, condition, limitation, proviso

Common phrases: with a qualification, without qualification, add a qualification