qualifier

3 definitions • 2 examples

a team or person who has won part of a competition and is therefore competing in the next part of it:

The qualifiers from the first round will advance to the quarter final.

a game from which the winner will go on to compete in the next part of a competition:

Belgium and Italy are playing in tonight's qualifier.

in grammar, a word or phrase that limits the meaning of another word or phrase, or makes it less general, such as an adjective or adverb