qualification

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc.

   “Qualification for this organization is extraordinarily difficult.”

2. (countable, uncountable)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, countable, uncountable)A certificate, diploma, or degree awarded after successful completion of a course, training, or exam.
4. (countable, uncountable)A clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation.

   “I accept your offer, but with the following qualification.”

   “Before a vowel (as in rib, brake) r is usually pronounced as a fricative consonant by all groups of speakers. But the qualification 'usually' is necessary, for the Negroes tend to weaken r after a consonant; and they omit it, as do illiterate white speakers, in throat, throw, through.”

5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)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.”