English | German | Russian | Czech
C1

competent English

Meaning competent meaning

What does competent mean?
Definitions in simple English

competent

If you are competent at something you can do it. You are good at doing it. In some countries, if you are competent the law says you are not insane (crazy). This means you can decide things, and may be allowed to do somethings that crazy people are not allowed to do.

competent

properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient a competent typist adequate for the purpose a competent performance legally qualified or sufficient a competent court competent testimony

Synonyms competent synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as competent?

Examples competent examples

How do I use competent in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The university has turned out competent doctors.
I had to part with my competent secretary.
He was a famous poet and a competent diplomat.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
They are both very competent judges.
Tom and Mary are both very competent teachers.
At first sight he seems to be a very competent person.
I think he's competent.
Tom is competent.
Tom is a competent nurse.
Tom and John are both competent alchemists. Tom often shows himself to be the more skillful, but both experience explosions in the lab.
I've been told that he's a very competent person.
Tom is quite competent.
He had two or three rather competent assistants.
The new waiter should be much more competent.
I think he's a competent person.
He's younger than most of us, but he's shown himself as a competent specialist.
Mary hired a new housekeeper, and a competent one at that.
I think they are a competent person.
They are very competent.

Movie subtitles

They're quite competent.
I read here that you are a competent man.
Is that competent?
I know all about you. that you're a nice girl, competent. and kind to Jessica.
If you're so confoundedly competent. you'll notice your kettle's about to boil over.
Kringle's been declared a menace by competent doctors.
Are you prepared to show that Mr. Kringle is Santa Claus on the basis of competent authority?
I've tried every way to get some competent authority.
Not one competent, authoritative proof that this man is Santa Claus.
In every family, statistically there's a black sheep, an incompetent, like Eugen, a nice person like Paul and someone competent.
He'll have a highly competent battalion commander.
Not much personality but competent.
You have no idea how sweet he is. And he is so competent.
I want a new receptionist who is just as competent.
We've also seen they're competent, rational, and compliant human beings.
Ivan, it would seem your former comrades are more competent than they appear.
Dr. Clitterhouse, as a competent medical authority do you believe it possible for an insane man to write a sane book?
I promise you Mirko is more than competent.
I presume I have the right to assure myself he's competent?
And he seemed to be competent.
Monsieur, may I suggest that you seek competent medical aid for Miss Winthrop.
Did they drive enough into your head, so that you can guess what any competent doctor would be able to tell you about such a wound?
He's thoroughly competent and relentless as law itself.
If the reason for the alleged insanity is important to this case then it's a matter for a competent witness.
Young officers, competent guys.
Are you sure you have a competent secretary, dear? - Oh, yes.
Oh, very competent, but there's just too much work for her to do. - Mm-hmm.
I advertised for one lone competent secretary.
Were the officers competent?
As Sir Wilfred has said, they are a reputable and competent firm.
We've got to get some competent legal advice, Josef.
There are so many competent antique shops. Why did you go to him?
Gabriel isn't competent?
I'm not competent.
Any competent officer can command this ship.
Any competent officer can command this ship under normal circumstances.
Then by your own standards of normality, this man is not fully competent.
Who else is competent to advise?

News and current affairs

But this assumes that Iraqi forces are up to the task, and that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government, which rests upon Shiite militia support, can play a competent and evenhanded role.
Decisions about which policy to choose is a matter best left to a country's political processes; they should not be usurped by international bureaucrats, no matter how competent.
Competent government is a far scarcer commodity than cash.
To do that, we must redefine what it means to be a competent business leader.
The case of Spain - where a competent and respected government is bearing the full brunt of a financial crisis that began elsewhere - is identical.
There is no Bismarck at the helm of Chinese diplomacy, but there is no impetuous Kaiser either: just relatively prudent and competent technocrats.
Surely a more competent administration would be worried about addressing these more severe and urgent fiscal problems.
Everywhere the recipe is roughly the same: delegate policy to a group of competent people - the central bank - by making them formally independent from political pressure and providing them with a clear, explicit mandate.
He looks more reassuring than Sarkozy and sounds more competent than Royal.
The opposition's main campaign claim was a suggestion that the right is more competent than the left in managing the economy.
Every technically competent person knows that the paths to civilian nuclear power and to nuclear weapons are the same, except for a few last, comparatively simple steps.
If he is merely competent, he will likely end up handing over power to the Left, and thus risks being remembered as Uruguay's Kerenski.
But Japan is unable to seize these opportunities, because its political system is incapable of producing competent leadership.
As Governor of Massachusetts, Romney built a record as a competent and moderate conservative, a political profile that suited him to the state's electorate.
Whereas Japan, the US, and Europe are competent at research into what is almost known, the cutting-edge science is more likely to emerge in an economy hungry for resources and infrastructure, such as China.
Since December 7, 1941, the world has in large part been able to rely on global governance by a somewhat-competent hyperpower.
Indeed, so competent is Olam that when Wilmar, a Southeast Asian firm run by overseas Chinese and a force in its own right in China and across Asia, sought to expand in Africa, it sought out Olam in a joint venture.
It has set for itself a concrete territorial goal, and has ample financing, sophisticated weapons, and a highly competent military command.
He forced out his competent chief secretary, Anson Chan, a veteran Hong Kong civil servant, for her colonial background, thereby signaling his mistrust of the entire civil service that the British had created.
As Asia creates the world's largest middle class - projected to grow more than three-fold, from 500 million to 1.75 billion, by 2020 - it will also have to cope with demands for more competent and more accountable governments.
In this respect, China's third and fourth generation of leaders, under the technocrats Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, have been competent but unimaginative.
But if 150,000 US troops could not stabilize Iraq in the absence of an inclusive and competent government, the limited measures on offer now simply will not suffice.

Are you looking for...?