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competent
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
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Stockholm's district court had declared Salander legally incompetent.†
Part 1

incompetent = not sufficiently capable

standard 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.
She was the ideal plaything—grown-up, promiscuous, socially incompetent, and at his mercy.†
Part 1
But if you keep yourself clean, I'll let you off the hook the day my declaration of incompetence is rescinded.†
Part 1

incompetence = inability to do things sufficiently

standard 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 it was Lisbeth whom society had declared incompetent.†
Part 2

incompetent = not sufficiently capable

standard 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.
And why had he not contested her declaration of incompetence while he still had the power?†
Part 2

incompetence = inability to do things sufficiently

standard 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 she'll always survive...She's the most competent person I've ever met.†
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competent = sufficiently capable
I have plans to take on my declaration of incompetence soon.†
Part 2

incompetence = inability to do things sufficiently

standard 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.
Of course I wish we had more resources and that the cutbacks didn't affect us, but I assure you that he's getting very competent care.†
Part 2

competent = sufficiently capable
He regarded himself as a competent amateur.†
Part 2
Four months earlier he had written that she seemed so rational and competent that there was good reason to discuss at the next annual review whether or not she required further guardianship.†
Part 2
It was elegantly phrased and amounted to the first building block in the revocation of her declaration of incompetence.†
Part 2

incompetence = inability to do things sufficiently

standard 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 when he was kept on a short leash he was a competent detective.†
Part 3

competent = sufficiently capable
She was declared incompetent and put under guardianship.†
Part 3

incompetent = not sufficiently capable

standard 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.
"To sum up," Ekström said when Faste was finished, "we have fingerprints on the probable murder weapon from a woman who during her teens was in and out of psychiatric units, who is understood to make her living as a prostitute, who was declared incompetent by the district court, and who has been documented as having violent tendencies.†
Part 3
The Lisbeth Salander we're looking for didn't finish school and was officially declared incompetent to manage her affairs.†
Part 3
"They don't say 'incompetent' nowadays," Armansky said calmly.†
Part 3
And you say that she was a competent researcher?†
Part 3

competent = sufficiently capable
Bublanski wondered what rules applied for individuals who had been declared incompetent.†
Part 3

incompetent = not sufficiently capable

standard 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.
She was declared incompetent.†
Part 3
But he had had no idea that she had been declared incompetent or was under guardianship, or that she had spent any part of her teenage years in a psychiatric clinic.†
Part 3
She was declared incompetent.†
Part 3
The psychiatric assessments, the fact that she had been committed to one of the country's most highly regarded institutions, and that she had even been declared incompetent, all tended to confirm that something was wrong with her.†
Part 3
He brooded over Faste and Modig, both competent detectives.†
Part 3

competent = sufficiently capable
Not long afterwards the district court declared her incompetent, and she ended up under the guardianship of Holger Palmgren, and later Nils Bjurman.†
Part 4

incompetent = not sufficiently capable

standard 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.
Salander had last seen him eight years earlier, in connection with the district court hearing regarding her declaration of incompetence.†
Part 4

incompetence = inability to do things sufficiently

standard 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.
She's familiar with the material and competent to decide where the boundaries lie.†
Part 4

competent = sufficiently capable
She took along Palmgren's notebooks, Björck's police report from 1991, the medical report from 1996 when she was declared incompetent, and the correspondence between Teleborian and Björck.†
Part 4

incompetent = not sufficiently capable

standard 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.
I'd just decided that it was time to put an end to the absurd declaration of incompetence.†
Part 4

incompetence = inability to do things sufficiently

standard 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.
If he'd only kept his distance she would have released him as soon as he'd managed to get her declaration of incompetence rescinded.†
Part 4
The price of that was that she was declared incompetent and I became her guardian.†
Part 4

incompetent = not sufficiently capable

standard 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.
Besides, on a number of occasions I'd raised the subject of having the incompetency declaration rescinded.†
Part 4

incompetency = inability to do things sufficiently

standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incompetency means not and reverses the meaning of competency. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.

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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.

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