DISQUALIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disqualification mean? 

• DISQUALIFICATION (noun)
  The noun DISQUALIFICATION has 2 senses:

1. unfitness that bars you from participation

2. the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified

  Familiarity information: DISQUALIFICATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISQUALIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unfitness that bars you from participation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("disqualification" is a kind of...):

unfitness (the quality of not being suitable)

Derivation:

disqualify (make unfit or unsuitable)

disqualify (declare unfit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("disqualification" is a kind of...):

bar; prevention (the act of preventing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disqualification"):

recusal; recusation ((law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves)

Derivation:

disqualify (make unfit or unsuitable)

disqualify (declare unfit)

 Context examples 

But there was no peculiar disgrace in this; for it was very much the case with the chief of their visitors, who almost all laboured under one or other of these disqualifications for being agreeable—Want of sense, either natural or improved—want of elegance—want of spirits—or want of temper.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)