Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - qualification

(qualifications) 1. Your qualifications are the examinations that you have passed. Lucy wants to study medicine but needs more qualifications. N-COUNT: usu pl 2. Qualification is the act of passing the examinations you need to work in a particular profession. Following qualification, he worked as a social worker. N-UNCOUNT 3. The qualifications you need for an activity or task are the qualities and skills that you need to be able to do it. Responsibility and reliability are necessary qualifications... N-COUNT 4. A qualification is a detail or explanation that you add to a statement to make it less strong or less general. The empirical evidence considered here is subject to many qualifications... N-VAR • If something is stated or accepted without qualification, it is stated or accepted as it is, without the need for any changes. The government conceded to their demands almost without qualification. = without reservation PHRASE: PHR with cl/group