qualify

About 5.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
2. verb To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
3. verb To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
4. verb To become competent or eligible for some position or task.
5. verb To certify or license someone for something.
6. verb To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
7. verb To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
8. verb To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.

Similar words

specify modify stipulate characterize measure up condition restrict dispose qualification designate

Often followed by

for as the them him under to a it

Word family

qualified qualifies qualifying