qualify
/ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/ verb B1- To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
- To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
- To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
- To become competent or eligible for some position or task.
- To certify or license someone for something.
- To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
- To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
- To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
He/she/it qualifies · Past qualified · Past participle qualified · -ing form qualifying
Verb forms
- Base form
- qualify
- He/she/it
- qualifies
- Past
- qualified
- Past participle
- qualified
- -ing form
- qualifying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
It is not illegal, however, to keep a lunatic upon private premises so long as there is a qualified person in attendance and that the authorities have been duly notified.
I am not qualified to form one.
Nay, were your friend Lady Catherine to know me, I am persuaded she would find me in every respect ill qualified for the situation.”
“Perhaps,” said Darcy, “I should have judged better had I sought an introduction, but I am ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers.”
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