qualification

noun5

1. •
   The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc.

   • 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.

   • 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.

   • I accept your offer, but with the following qualification.
5. •
   (no longer used) A quality or attribute.

   • 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. — 1714