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  1. transitive verb To describe by enumerating the characteristics or qualities of; characterize.
  2. transitive verb To make competent or eligible for an office, position, or task.
  3. transitive verb To declare competent or capable; certify.
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  1. From French qualifier (from Old French) and from Middle English qualifien, to specify the time and place of a document's execution, both from Medieval Latin quālificāre, to attribute a quality to : Latin quālis, of such a kind; see quality + Latin -ficāre, -fy.

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  1. from Old French qualifier, callifier, cualificar, French qualifier = Spanish calificar = Portuguese qualificar = Italian qualificare, from Middle Latin qualificare, from Latin qualis, of what kind, + -ficare, from facere, make: see quality and -fy.
 

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/ˈkwɑlɪfai/
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