Qualification Left School Formal Experience Job Noun Bre

• academic/educational/professional/vocational qualifications
• a nursing/teaching, etc. qualification
• he left school with no formal qualifications.
• to acquire/gain/get/obtain/have/hold qualifications

qualification

1. an exam that you have passed or a course of study that you have successfully completed
• academic/educational/professional/vocational qualifications
• a nursing/teaching, etc. qualification
• He left school with no formal qualifications.
• to acquire/gain/get/obtain/have/hold qualifications
• In this job, experience counts for more than paper qualifications.
2. a skill or type of experience that you need for a particular job or activity
• Previous teaching experience is a necessary qualification for this job.
3. information that you add to a statement to limit the effect that it has or the way it is applied
• synonym proviso
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/proviso
• I accept his theories, but not without certain qualifications.
• The plan was approved without qualification.
4. the fact of passing an exam, completing a course of training or reaching the standard necessary to do a job or take part in a competition
• Nurses in training should be given a guarantee of employment following qualification.
• A victory in this game will earn them qualification for the World Cup.

Extra Examples

• I agree with his view, with a few qualifications.
• Many of those selected lack the academic qualifications to teach.
• Only two of the applicants had the necessary qualifications.
• The aim of the reform is to give more status to vocational qualifications.
• The committee supported her proposal, without qualification.
• The job usually has a three-year qualification period.
• The term ‘population’ as used here requires qualification.
• a qualification programme in business management
• the minimum entry qualification for admission
• He left school with no formal qualifications.

Word Origin

• mid 16th cent.: from medieval Latin qualificatio(n-), from the verb qualificare, from Latin qualis ‘of what kind, of such a kind’. (see qualify).