competent

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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

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• "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

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