What is the meaning of qualified?

verb

• Prove capable or fit; meet requirements.
  • synonyms: qualify, measure up
• Pronounce fit or able.
  • usage: "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections"
  • synonyms: qualify
• Make more specific.
  • usage: "qualify these remarks"
  • synonyms: qualify, restrict
• Make fit or prepared.
  • usage: "Your education qualifies you for this job"
  • synonyms: qualify, dispose
• Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement.
  • usage: "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
  • synonyms: stipulate, qualify, condition, specify
• Describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of.
  • usage: "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover"
  • synonyms: qualify, characterize, characterise
• Add a modifier to a constituent.
  • synonyms: modify, qualify

adjective

• Meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task.
  • usage: "many qualified applicants for the job"
• Limited or restricted; not absolute.
  • usage: "gave only qualified approval"
• Holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill.
  • usage: "a registered pharmacist"; "a registered hospital"
  • synonyms: certified
• Restricted in meaning; (as e. G. `man' in `a tall man'.
  • synonyms: restricted
• Contingent on something else.
  • synonyms: dependent, dependant