What does competency mean?

Definitions for competency
ˈkɒm pɪ tən sicom·pe·ten·cy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. competence, competencynoun

    the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

GCIDE

  1. Competencynoun

    the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually, especially possession of the skill and knowledge required (for a task).

Wiktionary

  1. competencynoun

    A sufficient supply (of).

  2. competencynoun

    A sustainable income

  3. competencynoun

    The ability to perform some task; competence.

  4. competencynoun

    Meeting specified qualifications to perform.

  5. competencynoun

    implicit knowledge of a language's structure.

  6. Etymology: From competentia.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Competence, Competencynoun

    Etymology: from competent.

    Something of speech is to be indulged to common civility, more to intimacies and endearments, and a competency to those recreative discourses which maintain the chearfulness of society. Government of the Tongue.

    For competence of life I will allow you,
    That lack of means enforce you not to evil. William Shakespeare, Hen. IV.

    It is no mean happiness to be seated in the mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

    A discreet learned clergyman, with a competency fit for one of his education, may be an entertaining, an useful, and sometimes a necessary companion. Jonathan Swift.

    Reason’s whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
    Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. competency

    Competency refers to the knowledge, skills, abilities, behaviors, or attitudes that a person possesses or develops in order to perform a task or job effectively. It is a measure of an individual's capability to meet certain requirements or standards, often used in professional or educational contexts to assess performance or potential. It can be either innate or acquired through learning, training, or experience.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Competencynoun

    the state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power

  2. Competencynoun

    property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess

  3. Competencynoun

    legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence

  4. Competencynoun

    right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court

  5. Etymology: [Cf. F. comptence, from L. competentia agreement.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of competency in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of competency in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of competency in a Sentence

  1. Jason Cone:

    Our core competency is not squarely at the center of the agenda.

  2. Michael Dougherty:

    Competency is different than insanity, or a mental health defect. So, we're not talking about what he did on March 22nd. We're talking about whether he is competent to stand trial right now.

  3. Nicole Hines:

    We need to educate the folks who are in those spaces of doing these things on cultural competency, right, and knowing that adding these items together is going to cause harm for the students in the school and families and community, i think the district has an opportunity here to do a couple of things and the community as a whole.

  4. Michael Dougherty:

    We appeared in open court earlier today to talk about, with the court, the recent competency evaluation that came back in the case of the King Soopers shooter. In the second court order of competency evaluation, the doctor who is a widely-respected expert found the shooter to be incompetent to stand trial.

  5. Julie Emerson.:

    If we’re going to test competency, let’s make sure it’s enough of a threat to public health and public safety to warrant this type of thing, otherwise, let’s let the free market dictate who’s a good florist [or] who’s a bad florist.

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