Competency

(n.) The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.

(n.) Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.

(n.) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.

(n.) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.

编辑:韦斯利

• It is, of course, arbitrary to separate industrial competency from capacity in good citizenship. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He came and was put in my care for the purpose of a mutual exchange of ideas and for a report by me as to his competency in the matter. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He would make Mrs. George Osborne an allowance, such as to assure her a decent competency. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A democratic criterion requires us to develop capacity to the point of competency to choose and make its own career. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• She had but to speak the words, and her father was restored to competency and the boy raised to fortune. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The instruments of transfer were drawn out: St. John, Diana, Mary, and I, each became possessed of a competency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

编辑:史蒂夫