competent

See also compétent

English

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Adjective

competent (comparative more competent, superlative most competent)

1. Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.

   He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.

2. (law) Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.

   For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.

   judicial authority having competent jurisdiction

3. Adequate for the purpose
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:

     "For if [birds] had been Viviparous, the burthen of their womb, if they had brought forth any competent number at a time, had been so big and heavy, that their wings would have failed them […] "

Quotations

• "I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter." - James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922
• "That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void." - James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922

Related terms

• competence
• compete
• competition
• competentness

Translations

Skilled

• Bulgarian: вещ (bg) (vešt), способен (bg) (sposoben), компетентен (bg) (kompetenten)
• Dutch: bekwaam (nl), bevoegd (nl), capabel (nl), competent (nl)
• Esperanto: kompetenta (eo)
• Finnish: pätevä (fi), osaava (fi), etevä (fi), taitava (fi)
• German: kompetent (de)

• Malay: cekap (ms)
• Russian: компетентный (ru) (kompetentnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: comasach (gd)
• Spanish: competente (es), competentes (es) pl

(law) Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question

• Bulgarian: компетентен (bg) (kompetenten), меродавен (bg) (merodàven)
• Finnish: toimivaltainen (fi)

• Russian: компетентный (ru) (kompetentnyj)

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Latin

Verb

competent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of competō