Definition of Competent

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Definition of Competent
	Competent Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit. Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to. Related Definitions: Adequate, All, Answering, Belonging, By, Capable, Fit, Followed, Incident, Legally, Or, Properly, Qualified, Rightfully, Sufficient, Suitable, To

Competent Quotations

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
Joe Biden

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
William Glasser

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.
William Glasser

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
Barney Frank

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
Jack Kevorkian

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
Thomas Babington

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
Jacques Derrida

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
Benazir Bhutto

Competent Translations

competent in Dutch is competent, deskundig, bevoegd
competent in Portuguese is competente
competent in Swedish is duglig, kompetent

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