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com⋅pe⋅tent

[kom-pi-tuhnt]
–adjective
1. having suitable or sufficient skill, knowledge, experience, etc., for some purpose; properly qualified: He is perfectly competent to manage the bank branch.
2. adequate but not exceptional.
3. Law. (of a witness, a party to a contract, etc.) having legal competence.
4. Geology. (of a bed or stratum) able to undergo folding without flowage or change in thickness.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME (< AF) < L competent- (s. of competēns, prp. of competere to meet, agree). See compete, -ent


com⋅pe⋅tent⋅ly, adverb


1. fit, capable, proficient. See able.
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com·pe·tent   (kŏm'pĭ-tənt)   
adj.  
  1. Properly or sufficiently qualified; capable: a competent typist.

  2. Adequate for the purpose: a competent performance.

  3. Law Legally qualified or fit to perform an act.


[Middle English, adequate, from Old French, from Latin competēns, competent-, present participle of competere, to be suitable; see compete.]
com'pe·tent·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

competent 
c.1400, from O.Fr. competent, from L. competentem (nom. competens), prp. of competere "coincide, agree" (see compete). Legal sense is from 1483.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: com·pe·tent
Pronunciation: 'käm-p&t-&nt
Function: adjective
: having the capacity to function or develop in aparticular way; specifically : having the capacity to respond (as by producing an antibody) to an antigenic determinant competent cells>
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competent com·pe·tent (kŏm'pĭ-tənt)
adj.

  1. Properly or sufficiently qualified; capable.

  2. Capable of performing an allotted or required function.

  3. Legally qualified or fit to perform an act.

  4. Able to distinguish right from wrong and to manage one's affairs.

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