Qualify Meaning
/ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
verbTo successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
Sentence Examples
How early do I have to make a reservation to qualify for the discount?
In order to qualify for the homestay you must have an interview with the sponsors.
How long does it take to qualify?
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To ____ for the scholarship, you must have a high grade point average.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She needed to pass two more exams to ____ as a chartered accountant and join the firm.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge."
— 1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62:
"But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement."
— 2007 February 11, Jay Romano, “Triggering a Rent Increase”, in The New York Times:
"They usually spoke of this connection as a longing for the purer life of Attic civilization, but that was a delusion which even they recognized — the position of slaves and women hardly qualified Classical antiquity as an ideal of freedom."
— 1986 February 15, Michael Bronski, “Male Nudes: In His Own Image”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 8:
"He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession."
— 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
"O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify"
— 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 109”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To ____ for the scholarship, you must have a high grade point average.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She needed to pass two more exams to ____ as a chartered accountant and join the firm.