Competency

/ˈkɒm.pə.tən.si/ · noun

Meaning

The ability to perform some task; competence..

Definitions by Sense

1. The ability to perform some task; competence.
2. (law) An individual's capacity to understand the nature and implications of their legal rights and obligations.
3. (linguistics) Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.
4. (obsolete) A sufficient supply of something.
5. (obsolete) A sustainable income.

Example Sentences

The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause.

What professional competencies do science teachers need?

By the year 2000, American students will leave grades four, eight, and twelve having demonstrated competency in challenging subject matter including English, mathematics, science, history, and geography....

The decision was then made to return '91s' and Mk 4s. These are being retained on the Yorkshire routes to keep driver competency in one area, to help with operations.

the next day they returned unsuspected, leaving their confederates to follow, and in the interim, to convay them a competencie of all things they could […]

[…] it would appear that before taking this precaution Mr. Bree must have had the thrift to remove a modest competency of the gold […]

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

And that knights competency you haue gotten / VVith care and labour: he vvith luſt and idleneſſe / VVill bring into the ſtypend of a begger; […]

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