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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
certification
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
process
▪ By putting them through the assessment and certification process we are demonstrating that confidence, as well as showing our commitment to quality assurance.
self
▪ With self certification, it is up to the manufacturer to decide the best way of testing.
▪ You will need a self certification note for your employer available from your doctor's surgery.
▪ The Directive specifies three ways in which compliance can be demonstrated. Self certification is the first option.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Additional funds are needed for training and certification of healthcare workers.
▪ To participate in the diving program, you must show proof of scuba certification.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A veteran of fighting Western wildfires as a young man, Babbitt renewed his certification in 1994.
▪ Already, in the past year, Lloyds has introduced regulations requiring actuarial certification in certain specific circumstances.
▪ And this has already resulted in the development of joint certification agreements with bodies such as the Engineering Industry Training Board.
▪ He has passed his first teacher certification exam and expects to pass the second.
▪ Losing certification could mean the loss of millions of dollars in aid.
▪ Only half of the zones required any certification concerning full-time employees or new jobs created.
▪ The pair are the first in Shropshire to attain the certification.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Certification

Certification \Cer`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. certificatio: cf. F. certification.] The act of certifying.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
certification

early 15c., "notification;" mid-15c., "demonstration, proof," from Medieval Latin certificationem (nominative certificatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin certificare (see certify). Meaning "act of providing with a legal certificate" is from 1881.

Wiktionary
certification

n. 1 The act of certifying. 2 The granting of a certificate. 3 A professional qualification that certify a person's ability.

WordNet
certification
  1. n. the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on [syn: enfranchisement] [ant: disenfranchisement]

  2. confirmation that some fact or statement is true [syn: documentation, corroboration]

  3. a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts [syn: certificate, credential, credentials]

  4. validating the authenticity of something or someone [syn: authentication]

Wikipedia
Certification

Certification refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization. This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit. Accreditation is a specific organization's process of certification.

Usage examples of "certification".

If you had a degree in paperhanging, even, you might get provisional certification while you finish your education courses.

When we have finished, you will use it to record your location, so that any trades you may make during the course of your certification will be appropriately recorded to your key, as well as entering your guild file.

They went into the one that said ECSAA Certifications, and Ben and Bird walked up to the counter with him.

B-spoke core-lift down to the ECSAA office, feeling the shakes finally hit him while he was at the Certifications desk getting the license, shakes so bad he had to put his hands in his pockets for fear the office staff might see it.

Evaluation has been trying to decide whether the smaller herbivores on Bemus III are offspring of the big, mammoth-like croppers that Planet Certification thought were becoming extinct.

Medicine had borne most of the blame, in the popular Gen mind, for the mutation of the human race into Sime and Gen. The irresponsible use of drugs and certification of chemicals as safe for release to the environment had come about, people had believed, through the low moral standards of the men of medicine.

The secretary of state, as she has restated here, in effect, believes that the election certification that she gives should stand.

This paper, and the even more extensive documentation required for FAA type certification, contained Norton proprietary information.

He had aimed for a class-eight certification but his control had not been as good in those days as it was now.

For example, we do not even require a talent certification from our clients.

I told them that Sheffield had not provided a certification of talent, but that I only hired full-spectrum prisms, so I assumed there would be no risk to any of my employees.

Wilforce was reminded of the high-pressure spheres in which Planet Certification lowered its men to the ocean depths.

Planet Certification Authority, which had made the original survey of Bemus III.

I tried to dissect a medium-sized herbivore, to see how similar the internal structure was to the cropper Planet Certification reported dissecting.

Eleventh: thorough inspection and certification by local authorities of all houses and "dwellings" inhabited by the poor.