0 able to do something well: --
1 having the skills or knowledge to do something well enough to meet a basic standard: --
[ + to infinitive ] The judge decided that he was competent to stand trial.
[ + to infinitive ] All we want is someone competent to manage the staff.
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.
The late average age of onset (2;4) supports our claim that competent use of apologies represents mastery of a relatively more challenging pragmatic skill.
The result is a competent, professionally written, totally conventional work, nearly all of which presents material already found in other sources.
The point is that in neither case are we limiting the liberty of competent adults in order to keep them from harming themselves.
Additionally, we are interested in whether maltreated and nonmaltreated children will differ in their resilient self-strivings and in their developmental pathways to competent functioning.
Where competent transmission hosts are more or less completely replaced, rather than augmented, by non-competent host species, enzootic cycles may be severely limited.
This paper calls into question notions of what it means to be a competent communicator in the virtual world.
The case is presented in philosophical competent way but without use of technical vocabulary and with little reference to learned literature.
This would then provide a 'less competent' model for mouse meiotic maturation in vitro.