Competency
['kɒmpɪtənsɪ] or ['kɑmpɪtənsi]
Definition
(n.) The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.
(n.) Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
(n.) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.
(n.) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.
Typist: Wesley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ability, ableness, capableness, capacity, qualification, suitableness, fitness.[2]. Sufficiency, adequateness, adequacy, enough.
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Examples
- It is, of course, arbitrary to separate industrial competency from capacity in good citizenship. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He came and was put in my care for the purpose of a mutual exchange of ideas and for a report by me as to his competency in the matter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He would make Mrs. George Osborne an allowance, such as to assure her a decent competency. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A democratic criterion requires us to develop capacity to the point of competency to choose and make its own career. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She had but to speak the words, and her father was restored to competency and the boy raised to fortune. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The instruments of transfer were drawn out: St. John, Diana, Mary, and I, each became possessed of a competency. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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