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competence

/kom-pi-tuhns/US // ˈkɒm pɪ təns //UK // (ˈkɒmpɪtəns) //

能力,职权,权限,功力

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the quality of being competent; adequacy; possession of required skill, knowledge, qualification, or capacity: He hired her because of her competence as an accountant.
    • : an income sufficient to furnish the necessities and modest comforts of life.
    • : sufficiency; a sufficient quantity.
    • : Law. legal capacity or qualification based on the meeting of certain minimum requirements of age, soundness of mind, citizenship, or the like.
    • : Embryology. the sum total of possible developmental responses of any group of blastemic cells under varied external conditions.
    • : Linguistics. the implicit, internalized knowledge of a language that a speaker possesses and that enables the speaker to produce and understand the language.Compare performance.
    • : Immunology. immunocompetence.
    • : Geology. the ability of a fluid medium, as a stream or the wind, to move and carry particulate matter, measured by the size or weight of the largest particle that can be transported.

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Examples

  • Once again, the invisibility from the government over this population will make Puerto Rico’s path towards cultural competence education and acceptance of the diversity its citizens harder.

  • The competence of the office is a fair question, but the fraud accusation is absurd.

  • They also offer a sense of mastery and competence that can give them an advantage over more passive forms of entertainment like movies or books.

  • With most skills, the progression from competence to excellence comes from building upon each new lesson that you learn.

  • From a humble novice, skill learners progressed to the advanced beginner stage, then on to a sort of midpoint of competence, before climbing further to proficiency, finally summiting at expertise.

  • If that state is to be further armed with new laws, its competence will be even more on the line.

  • When you look at Mona Lisa, what you see is a woman of confidence and competence and compassion.

  • Voters prize gubernatorial competence above gubernatorial ideology.

  • Whatever your views on capital punishment, the incident raises questions of basic competence.

  • But when did they become the litmus test of competence in office?

  • Nine-tenths of those who have a competence know what income they have, and are careful not to spend more.

  • He is a business man of great competence, and I think he ought to be able to do much to get things on to a ship-shape footing.

  • There are prairie farmers who would consider what he is leaving behind him a competence.

  • At the same time he began lending money on short time, and by speculating with the poorer class he acquired a certain competence.

  • Page 229 Chapter X a comma was inserted in the phrase 'he would secure the competence he had yearned for, for so many years'.