0 able to do something well:
1 having the skills or knowledge to do something well enough to meet a basic standard:
[ + to infinitive ] All we want is someone competent to manage the staff.
[ + to infinitive ] The judge decided that he was competent to stand trial.
2 able to do something well:
3 good enough, but not excellent:
4 able or allowed to make legal decisions:
The prospective jurors did not indicate whether they thought the plaintiff was competent.
She's extremely competent and industrious - an asset to the department.
It's a competent enough piece of writing but it has no flair.
Charlie can cope here without you - he's perfectly competent.
They are a very competent group of people, but they lack flexibility and originality.
All the others were competent, though too often telling us what we have long known already.
However, the application of a primitive dictionary is not always sufficient; auxiliary data must often be considered to make a competent translation.
In this situation, voters face a standard inference problem of predicting the unobservable type (whether competent or not) of the incumbent from the observable policy.
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