All 4 Uses

competent
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Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
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A classmate named Stewart Snyder, a competent bulky young man in a gray flannel shirt, a rusty black bow tie, and the green-and-purple class cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards, "These college chumps make me tired.†
Chpt 1

competent = sufficiently capable
Will had been lordly—stalwart, jolly, impressively competent in making camp, tender and understanding through the hours when they had lain side by side in a tent pitched among pines high up on a lonely mountain spur.†
Chpt 3
The Ford Garage and the Buick Garage, competent one-story brick and cement buildings opposite each other.†
Chpt 4 *
Bea was competent; there was no household labor except sewing and darning and gossipy assistance to Bea in bed-making.†
Chpt 7

Definitions:

(1) (competent)
capable (able to do something in a generally satisfactory manner) -- sometimes specifically to have legal capability
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In the field of law, competent has the specialized meaning of being legally qualified to do something such as to be mentally fit to make reasonable decisions; or to have jurisdiction or authority to take an action.

In classic literature, a competency can refer to having an income or assets to support living expenses.