competency

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The ability to perform some task

   The ability to perform some task; competence.

   • 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....
2. 2

   An individual's capacity to understand the nature and implications of their legal rights…

   An individual's capacity to understand the nature and implications of their legal rights and obligations.

3. 3

   Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.

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   1. 4

      A sufficient supply of something.

      • 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 […]
   2. 5

      A sustainable income.

      • 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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