Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Someone who is qualified has passed the examinations that they need to pass in order to work in a particular profession.
Demand has far outstripped supply of qualified teachers...
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
If you give someone or something qualified support or approval, your support or approval is not total because you have some doubts.
The government has given qualified support to the idea...
? unqualified
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
If you describe something as a qualified success, you mean that it is only partly successful.
Even as a humanitarian mission it has been only a qualified success.
PHRASE: v-link PHR