qualified

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Having the appropriate qualifications for an office, position, or task.
• adjective Limited, restricted, or modified.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Prefixed by a qualifying adjective; in a slang use, damned.
• Having a qualification; fitted by accomplishments or endowments; furnished with legal power or capacity: as, a person qualified to hold an appointment; a qualified elector.
• Affected by some degree of negation, limitation, or modification; modified: limited; restricted: as, a qualified statement; qualified admiration.
• Eccles., noting a person enabled to hold two benefices.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.
• adjective Modified; limited.
• adjective (Law) a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale.
• adjective (Law) an indorsement which modifies the liability of the indorser that would result from the general principles of law, but does not affect the negotiability of the instrument.
• adjective (Legislation) a limited veto power, by which the chief executive in a constitutional government may refuse assent to bills passed by the legislative body, which bills therefore fail to become laws unless upon a reconsideration the legislature again passes them by a certain majority specified in the constitution, when they become laws without the approval of the executive.
• adjective (Law) that which depends on temporary possession, as that in wild animals reclaimed, or as in the case of a bailment.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
• adjective Restricted or limited by conditions.
• verb Simple past tense and past participle of qualify.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective limited or restricted; not absolute
• adjective contingent on something else
• adjective meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task
• adjective holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill
• adjective restricted in meaning; (as e.g. `man' in `a tall man')