Competency

Definition: Competency

Competency

Noun

1. The quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "competency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Health

Medicine

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Synonym: Competency

Power

Ability; ableness; Adjective: competency; efficacy; efficiency, productivity, expertise (skill) ; validity, cogency; enablement; vantage ground; influence.

Crosswords: Competency

Poor little Maggie How many mental competency hearings have you been to, in your short life? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

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Books

• Becoming A Master Manager: A Competency Framework (reference)

• Case Studies in Preparation for the California Reading Competency Test (reference)

• Developing Competency to Manage Diversity: Readings, Cases & Activities (reference)

• Guide to HVAC/R Certification and Competency Tests (reference)

• Management: A Competency Based Approach (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Clinical Competency Tool (reference)

• Competency & Emotional Intelligence Quarterly (reference)

• Grown Up - Includes Clinical Competency Tool (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

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C. nigripalpus, though a primary vector for St. Louis Encephalitis, in vector competency studies it was found to be a competent, but only moderately efficient vector of West Nile Virus. Credit: CDC.

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Certificate of nationality, airworthiness, or competency, and licences, issued or recognised as valid by any of the Allied or Associated Powers, shall be recognised in Germany as valid and as equivalent to the certificates and licences issued by Germany. (reference)

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Health

A national credentialing agency exists for nonphysician practitioners and provides examinations for entry-level competency in the field. (references)

Business

Pre-award surveys to assess technical and financial competency are required for procurements of an extensive or complex nature. (references)

English competency of the general Japanese public is low if compared with that of Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines. (references)

While the link between obtaining a vendor certification and competency on the job is not 100 percent, job applicants with recognized certifications are often given hiring preference. (references)

Economic History

Sweden

U.S. companies continue to open up centers of competency and mobile research hubs. (references)

Canada

Since power markets fall under the competency of the Canadian provinces, they are at the forefront of the reform effort. (references)

New Zealand

Manufacturers then use private sector credit and reference checking resources to verify the competency of the agent-distributor. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

Approximately 75 percent now work in the geographic area of their particular linguistic competency. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "competency": certificate of competency ♦ maintenance of competency ♦ Mental Competency. Additional references.

Beginning with "competency": Competency-Based, Competency-Based Education.

Ending with "competency": minimal-competency.

Albanian

kompetencë (ability, adequacy, authority, business, capacity, competence, power, province, purview, reference), kamuri (competence), kamje (affluence, competence, wealth), fuqi ligjore (competence, validity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

способност (ability, aptness, bump, capability, capacity, competence, efficiency, faculty, fitness, flair, notion, power, quality, sufficiency, turn), компетенция (capacity, cognizance, competence, province, purview, reference, scope), компетентност (ability, cognizance, competence, jurisdiction, province, purview), добро материално положение (competence), дарба (ability, appanage, aptitude, competence, dowry, endowment, faculty, flair, genius, gift). (various references)

Chinese 

能力 (Abilities, Ability, Capabilities, Capability, Competence). (various references)

Czech

oprávnìní (authority, authorization). (various references)

Danish

kompetence (competence, jurisdiction, proficiency). (various references)

Dutch

competentie (ability). (various references)

Finnish

kompetenssi (competence). (various references)

French

compétence (competence, competition), capacité (competence), habilité. (various references)

German

Befähigung (ability, aptitude, capability, qualification). (various references)

Greek 

προσληπτικότητα. (various references)

Hungarian

szakértelem (competence, cunning, expertise, know how, know-how, proficiency, skill, skills), illetékesség (cognizance, competence, jurisdiction, right), alkalmasság (adequacy, appropriateness, aptitude, aptness, competence, efficiency, eligibility, fitness, fittingness, neatness, seemliness, sufficiency, suitability). (various references)

Italian

competenza (competence, expertise, expertness, proficiency, province). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

技量 (ability). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎりょう (ability, capacity, closing a debate, finishing discussion, skill, talent). (various references)

Korean 

� �성 (Aptitude, Competence). (various references)

Manx

cummeydys (lustiness, powerfulness), cooieys (capacity, decency, propriety), cooieid (applicability, convenience, correctness, qualification). (various references)

Pig Latin

ompetencycay

Portuguese

competência (ability, address, adeptness, aptness, authority, capacity, cognizance, jurisdiction, proficiency, province, qualification, scope). (various references)

Russian 

компетенция (attribution, cognizance, competence, scope, terms of reference). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spremnost (competence, forwardness, preparedness, readiness, willingness), sposobnost (ability, acumen, aptitude, aptness, capability, capacity, competence, facility, faculty, fitness, talent, touch), nadležnost (competence, jurisdiction), delokrug (competence, orb, purview, sphere). (various references)

Spanish

competencia (adeptness, capability, capacity, competence, competition, efficiency, opposition, proficiency, province, purview, rivalry, scope). (various references)

Swedish

kompetens (capacity, competence, qualification). (various references)

Turkish

yetki (authority, authorization, command, competence, faculty, fiat, power, sword, vis, warrant, warranty), yeterlik (ability, adequacy, capacity, competence, efficiency, proficiency, qualification, sufficiency), yetenek (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, artistry, bent, caliber, calibre, capability, capacity, competence, disposition, dower, dowry, efficiency, facility, faculty, fitness, flair, gift, hand, instinct, parts, power, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation), geçinip gidecek kadar gelir (competence, subsistence), ehliyet (competence, driver's licence, driver's license, driving licence, licence, proficiency, qualification, ticket). (various references)

Ukrainian

уміння (art, cleverness, competence, facility, know how, proficiency), компетентність (adequacy, competence), вправність (address, adroitness, artfulness, competence, craft, deftness, efficiency, neatness, sharpness, subtlety), правомочність (competence, warrant), достаток (abundance, affluence, competence, exuberance, exuberancy, fertileness, fertility, fullness, fulness, galore, glut, opulence, plenitude, plenty, prodigality, profusion, store, sufficiency, wealth). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "competency": incompetency. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Competency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: compatency, competancy, competenncy, competentcy, compotency, compretency. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: compete, concept, ecotype, neotype, potence, potency.

-4 letters: cement, cenote, coempt, cotype, cymene, ectype, eponym, etymon, metope, pecten, peyote, poteen, potmen, toneme, yeomen.

-5 letters: cento, comet, compt, comte, coney, conte, copen, cyton, emote, empty, enemy, money, monte, mopey, motey, myope, netop, pence, peony, ponce, teeny, tempo, tepoy, toney, topee, yente.

+2 letters: incompetency.

+4 letters: appendicectomy, pancreatectomy.