competency
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| —n , pl -cies | |
| 1. | law capacity to testify in a court of law; eligibility to be sworn |
| 2. | competence a less common word for competence |
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Competency
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
competency
c.1600, "sufficiency to satisfy the wants of life," from L. competentia "meeting together, agreement, symmetry," from competens, prp. of competere (see compete). Meaning "sufficiency of qualification" is recorded from 1797.
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Example sentences
Graduating students meet state competency requirements.
The math department has redesigned developmental math courses to a competency based model.
His lawyers, however, could challenge such a finding and demand a full competency hearing.
Plus the emphasis on ease and attractiveness, rather than actual competency.
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