Oxford Business English Dictionary for Learners of English

having passed the exams or completed the training necessary to do a particular job; having the experience to do a particular job: a list of qualified candidates о She's extremely well qualified for the job.

О a qualified accountant/electrician/lawyer, etc. * qualified candidates/employees/staff/workers ♦ to be fully/highly/suitably/well qualified

[not before noun] having the practical knowledge or skills to do sth: I don't know much about careers in accounting, so I don't feel qualified to advise you.

qualified o pinion (also .qualified re port, less frequent) noun [c]

(Accounting) used to show that an audit (= an official examination of the financial records of a company) is limited in some way, for example because the information provided was not complete or there is a problem ПШ0 The words qualified opinion may be written on the front of

see also: bill of quantities, economic order equilibrium ~

2Stock Exchange) the price of a share on the stock market

3 (Stock Exchange) when a company's shares are accepted (listed) on a stock exchange and can be bought and sold: The company does not have a full stock market quotation.

[C, usually sing.] a variety of things of a particular type: The hotel offers a wide range of facilities and services, о The drugs are not approved until they have passed the full range of tests.

[c] a set of products of a particular type: The new range of hair products will be launched in July, о The company has announced price cuts on its clothing ranges. Isyn| line

[c, usually sing.] the limits between which sth varies: Most of our customers are in the 18-30 age range, о The budget increase will be in the range of 3 to 5%.

verb [no obj]

1 range from A to В | range between A and В to vary between two particular amounts, sizes, etc., including others between them: Prices range from $20 to $50. о The rate of tax ranges between 15% and 40%.

2 range from A to В to include a variety of different things in addition to those mentioned: There are hundreds of job advertisements, ranging from trainee to senior management positions, о The company's products range from coffee to shampoo.

rank /raeqk/ noun, verb

noun

[U,C] the position, especially a high position, that sb has in an organization: He holds the rank of chief executive, о Promotion will mean that I'm immediately above him in rank, о Most of their management ranks were filled by business school graduates. -> ranking

О a low/high/middle/top rank ♦ executive/junior/ management/senior ranks

[sing.] the position that sb/sth has in a list arranged according to quality or importance: a business park of the first rank о The new company will be in the top rank of financial institutions.

О the first/second rank ♦ the bottom/top rank

3 the ranks [pi ] the members of a particular group or organization: joining the growing ranks of the unemployed о Most of the candidates came from within the company's ranks.

ШЕЗ break 'ranks if members of a group or an organization break ranks, they refuse to support the group

verb [+ obj or no obj] (not used in the continuous tenses)

to give sb/sth a particular position on a scale according to quality, importance, success, etc.; to have a position of this kind: The tasks have been ranked in order of difficulty, о They rank among the top ten PC makers, о a top-ranked business school ШШкате