0 present participle of qualify --
1 to successfully finish a training course so that you are able to do a job; to have or achieve the necessary skills, etc.: --
2 to have the legal right to have or do something because of the situation you are in, or to cause someone to have such a right: --
[ + obj + to infinitive ] figurative He thinks the fact that he's worked here longer than the rest of us qualifies him (= gives him the right) to tell us all what to do.
To qualify for the competition you need to be over 18.
She doesn't qualify for maternity leave because she hasn't been in her job long enough.
3 to succeed in getting into a competition: --
Alternatively, qualifying remarks may have been excised by the propagandist to maintain the shock value of the opening sentence.
The latter finding may be explained by disability level qualifying people with dementia for some services.
A few qualifying remarks are important in this regard.
This collection should add to the former, but it comes perilously close to qualifying for the latter as well.
Any students who suggested qualifying these attributes would be told they had changed the topic.
Those qualifying were informed about the study and asked to volunteer.
They indicated that industrialization is only a qualifying attribute.
This ratio provides a better means of qualifying each arcade, and is a direct measure of physical internal/external continuity.
