Synonym: competency. Similar words: competency, compete, pretence, competitor, competitive, competition, completeness, sentence. Meaning: ['kɒmpɪtəns] 
n. the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually.
n. the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually. 211. The staff turnover, one of the major nerve-wrecking puzzles for entrepreneurs at present, usually leads to capital losses and weakening of enterprise core competence.
212. The child self-regulatory competence scale include the effortful control concept of Rothbart and self-regulatory development.
213. One factor is the relative competence of the courts and the agencies.
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