Competency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMPETENCY in dictionary:

NOUN [PLURAL COM·PE·TEN·CIES.]:
• competence.
NOUN:
• the quality of being competent, also COMPETENCE
• The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.
• Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
• Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.
• Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.
• the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
• the quality of being competent

Words related to COMPETENCY

competencies20

Words that contain COMPETENCY

incompetency23

How to use COMPETENCY in a sentence

• George Osborne an allowance, such as to assure her a decent competency.
• He was a handsome, lazy, care-for-nothing fellow of seven-and-twenty, the only son of the younger brother of Sir Michael Audley, who had left him a moderate competency.
• The clergy were not provided with a decent competency.
• She said, that the good woman would be uneasy if any thing more than a competency were done for her.
• Louis, who had, by persevering industry, gained a competency.
• I have never doubted the constitutional competency of Congress to provide for its construction, but this exclusively under the war-making power.
• He was manager of a theatre, and was at length earning a moderate competency.
• To the American of the end of the eighteenth century the roads leading to great riches were as few as those leading to a competency were many.
• Compton was led from deep poverty up to a secure competency, and a place among the influential dignitaries of London society.
• Possessed of a keen and adaptable mind, he has by his energy and untiring efforts accumulated a competency, equalled by few of his race in the South.
• He complained again and again of delays, attributing this loss of time to official mismanagement and incidentally reflecting on the competency of the judges.
• He speedily became by far the most successful printer in all the colonies, and in twenty years was able to retire from active business with a competency.
• In former times in case of doubt a husband was permitted to demonstrate his competency in open court, but this custom is no longer regarded with favour by the judges.
• Yet he had built up a modest competency after a life time of struggle.
• Its one main street is lined with some very excellent shops, some of whose owners, report says, have made a nice little competency there.
• And because deacons are between priest and people, the dispensing of the blood is in the competency of deacons, rather than the dispensing of the body.
• These individuals will remain under medical supervision until their ailments are cured and their competency established.
• He now resides at Upper Tenements, Brechin, in the enjoyment of a well-earned competency.
• I have made a competency, and gained a rich and varied experience.
• Enough was left to insure the family a competency, but it became necessary to give up the mansion where so many years of his life had been passed.
• Ability, capability, capacity, competency, efficacy, power.
• For a person who, being not born to an estate, is not satisfied with a competency, will probably know no limits to his desires.
• By close attention to business he soon acquired eminence, numerous friends, and a handsome competency.
• By these means, episcopal revenues were so low reduced, that three or four sees were often united to make a tolerable competency.
• Certainly we ought not to ask their assistance till we despair of our own competency.
• He jumped at the offer, which promised an immediate competency for the whole family, pinched and anxious for so many years.
• It is believed that nothing has been done beyond the constitutional competency of Congress.
• Cheerfulness in our cups, content in our minds, and competency in our pockets.
• Its successful adjustment was a credit to capital and labour, to our police competency, and to general municipal common-sense.
• They are always at issue with governments, not on a question of abuse, but a question of competency and a question of title.
• Their idea of their powers is always taken at the utmost stretch of legislative competency, and their examples for common cases from the exceptions of the most urgent necessity.
• There he purchased a farm of about four hundred acres, which he must have cultivated with some degree of skill, since it seems to have yielded an ample competency.
• But two or three other points of distinction should be kept in mind as having sensible relation to the question of competency to bear witness.
• There can be no reasonable objection against them, because they allow of the acquisition of a decent and moderate competency.
• It would mean spurring herself to a high degree of competency.

Similar words containing MPETEN without suffix cy and without prefix co

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