Synonym: able, adequate, capable, effective, fit, qualified. Antonym: incapable, incompetent, inefficient. Similar words: competence, competency, compete, competitor, competitive, competition, completeness, detente. Meaning: ['kɑmpətənt /'kɒmpət(ə)nt] adj. 1. properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient 2. adequate for the purpose.
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151. He resigned amid questions of whether he was competent to manage the firm.
152. Everyone praised Douglas for the calm and competent way he had handled the situation.
153. Hence the importance of audits by competent and independent auditors - to which we turn in the next chapter.
154. He was a fanatical and not very competent golfer and a member of the Royal Bucks Club.
155. The Sorensons contacted a textile expert to assist in developing a competent dyeing procedure.
156. He's perfectly competent, well supplied with money always, and it's no more than a quarter past nine.
157. Do not learn your lines, as this can make the talk rather stilted unless you are a competent actor.
158. All you seemed to need was the right ingredients and a competent chemist.
159. Phoebe was good at looking into things, she discovered; never brilliant, but perfectly competent.
160. At the level of the individual director, being functionally skilled and technically competent no longer makes a difference.
161. In 1994 a judge ruled that prisoners who were mentally competent were free to starve themselves to death.
162. My hope is a more settled and competent defence this season will help him re-gain a lot of confidence.
163. Also he's an extremely competent carpenter, as you saw yourself.
164. She was twenty-four, she was an adult, and she had become very competent at coping with life.
165. Ramon Mitra has proved to be a competent Speaker in the House of Representatives.
166. That was cowardice worthy of franchise forfeiture, because the Broncos were at least a competent team.
167. Over the next year and a half I became a competent pilot,(Sentence dictionary) making forty-eight dives as pilot-in-command.
168. He is competent, but, like Tom, inclined to be easygoing.
169. How long could she keep up the pretence of being a competent sailor?
170. We had not yet met Odd-Knut, but his voice was friendly and competent.
171. First, the administrative process becomes more politicized and less competent.
172. He is an agricultural science graduate from Oxford University and feels competent to assess evidence and act logically.
173. They've got a good enough sound, they're competent, but where's the imagination?
174. The declaration may also require prior authorisation by the competent authority to be obtained in each particular case.
175. He was a skilled and artistic weaver ... A highly competent woodworker ... A good herdsman ... A fine farmer ....
176. She was calculating and ambitious, and by all accounts at least a competent journalist.
177. He was a gentle man, happily dominated by his competent wife.
178. Hapless, hopelessly clumsy Gilligan is washed ashore along with the competent, self-assured skipper.
179. The tutors are all trained by the company and are competent on all models of the french electronic machines.
180. He is - was - an extremely competent forensic biologist, but I doubt whether he would have gone any higher.
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