Meaning of competent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
2. expert, qualified
3. Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
4. Adequate for the purpose.
5. Functionally in order; functioning adequately.
6. Permeable to foreign DNA.
7. Resistant to deformation or flow.

Equivalents

Examples

“He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.”

“I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter.”

“That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void.”

“For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.”

“judicial authority having competent jurisdiction”

“For if they [birds] had been Viviparous, the burthen of their womb, if they had brought forth any competent number at a time, had been ſo big and heavy, that their wings would have failed them, and ſo every body would have had the wit to catch the Old one.”

“a competent sphincter;   a competent cervix;   a competent immune system”

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