All 6 Uses
competent
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Starship Troopers
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- A purely nominal political privilege that pays not one centavo and that most of them aren't competent to use wisely anyhow.†
Chpt 2 *competent = sufficiently capable
- The Fleet Sergeant added, "Did you find exhibits relating to their present competence to take the oath of enrollment?†
Chpt 2competence = ability
- "We found," the older one said, "appended to each record off physical examination a duly certified conclusion by an authorized and delegated board of psychiatrists stating that each of them is mentally competent to take the oath and that neither one is under the influence of alcohol, narcotics, other disabling drugs, nor of hypnosis."†
Chpt 2competent = sufficiently capable
- The boy has got to be knocked cold and the instructor must do so without ever being touched himself or I'll damned well break him for incompetence.†
Chpt 6incompetence = inability to do things sufficientlystandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incompetence means not and reverses the meaning of competence. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- But the tragedy lies in the loss of others ....good men, sergeants and corporals and privates, whose only lack is fatal bad fortune in finding themselves under the command of an incompetent.†
Chpt 12incompetent = not sufficiently capablestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incompetent means not and reverses the meaning of competent. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- With this to start on, we eliminate as many as possible of the not-quite-competent — get them quickly back in ranks before we spoil good cap troopers by forcing them beyond their abilities.†
Chpt 12competent = sufficiently capable
Definitions:
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(1)
(competent) capable (able to do something in a generally satisfactory manner) -- sometimes specifically to have legal capability
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(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.