Competency Definition

kŏmpĭ-tən-sē
competencies
noun
competencies
Competence.
American Heritage
A skill or ability.
American Heritage
1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 116.
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. He knew that the lack made a man petty, mean, grasping; it distorted his character and caused him to view the world from a vulgar angle; when you had to consider every penny, money became of grotesque importance: you needed a competency to rate it at its proper value.
Wiktionary
(law) Meeting specified qualifications to perform.
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Other Word Forms of Competency

Noun

Singular:
competency
Plural:
competencies

Origin of Competency

  • From French compétence.

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Competency Sentence Examples

  • Resistance exercises can inspire a feeling of competency.

  • It has also the duty of deciding disputes as to the competency of the other Congregations.

  • The theological application and development of Hamilton's arguments in Mansel's Bampton Lectures On the Limits of Religious Thought marked a still more determined attack, in the interests of theology, upon the competency of reason.

  • Bismarcks reply was to deny the competency of the diet to interfere; and in the Prussian parliament the minister of war moved for a special grant for the creation of a war-harbour at Kid.

  • The A+ certification certifies the competency of entry-level technicians in the computer industry.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOM

Words Ending With

YCYNCY

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Words Starting With C and Ending With Y

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