[ UK /kˈɒmpɪtənt/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑmpətɪnt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. legally qualified or sufficient
    a competent court
    competent testimony
  2. adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional
    a competent performance
  3. properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient
    a competent typist
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How To Use competent In A Sentence

  • They kicked out our competent people and posted nincompoops. Times, Sunday Times
  • So no matter how boneheaded an incompetent manager I am, my department is 100% guaranteed to be profitable as long as I'm good at keeping my receipts?
  • I have also had dealings with totally incompetent muppets posing as health professionals.
  • Because the learner has become competent with the short vowels, consonants, and consonant blends, he or she can now concentrate on mastering the long-vowel spelling forms.
  • They have suffered embarrassment and worst from dopes, dubbos and incompetents.
  • Reporter - unquote "unquote" is looking for a confident, competent and ambitious reporter with language skills, specifically French or Scandinavian, to work as part of the unquote "team. News from Journalism.co.uk
  • So basically, the thought is that this woman is going to start slashing the department, and only the really competent people will remain.
  • A psychiatrist said McKibben was competent to stand trial .
  • That being the case, it is inconceivable to me that an accused cannot raise, by way of prerogative writ, the issue of the statutory validity of service before a court of competent jurisdiction.
  • Although it is established that TMR-actin alone is polymerization incompetent, the impact of its copolymerization with unlabeled actin on filament structure and dynamics has not been tested yet.
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