qualifiedadjective
uk/ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪd/us/ˈkwɑː.lə.faɪd/qualified adjective (TRAINED)
B1 having finished a training course, or having particular skills, etc.:
Tim is now a qualified architect.
What makes you think that you are qualified for this job?
[ + to infinitive ] I'm not qualified to give advice on such matters.
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- If you want a qualified accountant, their services don't come cheap.
- A qualified teacher, he moonlighted as a cabbie in the evenings to pay the rent.
- He might have told you he was a qualified electrician, but the truth is quite otherwise.
- He is well qualified for the job, but he does lack personality .
- My starting salary as a newly qualified teacher wasn't enough to support a family.
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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Skilled, talented and able
qualified adjective (LIMITED)
limited:
There seems to be qualified support for the idea.
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Lack of freedom to act
- be in bondage to sth idiom
- be locked in sth
- bondage
- bound
- bound
- hand
- lock
- oppressed
- option
- paralysis
- paralytic
- regimented
- sb's hands are tied idiom
- tether
- thumb
- tie
- tool
- tyranny
- under sb's thumb idiom
- under the heel of sth/sb idiom
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