competency
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Origin of competency
1Other words from competency
- non·com·pe·ten·cy, noun
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How to use competency in a sentence
It’s just that “tech” has moved from being an industry to being a competency… of pretty much any successful business today.
What Fortune’s Fastest Growing Companies list says about the economy | Alan Murray | October 30, 2020 | FortuneI am still surprised by how many organizations still don’t have a reskilling competency, and I’m hopeful this moment will change that.
To get ahead of that chilling trend, “organizations need to commit to reskilling as a competency,” said panelist Liz Hilton Segel of consulting firm McKinsey.
Lay off the layoffs, experts say. To transform effectively, focus on retraining instead | dzanemorris | October 27, 2020 | FortuneThe opportunity is that, even if an e-commerce business is seen as a “tech” play, that is not often its core competency.
Shogun raises $35M to help brands take on Amazon with faster and better sites of their own | Ingrid Lunden | October 7, 2020 | TechCrunchThey then try to find a local provider who has experience dealing with trauma, is bilingual and has the cultural competency to work with immigrant families.
Border Report: The Lingering Trauma of Family Separation | Maya Srikrishnan | August 31, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Legal experts say trying children as adults is not only bad policy, but it raises serious competency and due process issues.
10-Year-Old Murder Defendant Shows Failure of U.S. Juvenile Justice System | Christopher Moraff | October 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA system to ensure that providers have a baseline competency in the areas where they choose to practice makes sense to me.
Many other factors would come into play, including the competency and platforms of her opponents, both Democrat and Republican.
It is certain beyond question that whatever tactical tasks those troops are given will be executed with great competency.
Should the Military Pull All Forces Out of Afghanistan After 2014? | Daniel L. Davis | February 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“They tried to question her competency and she was like that for years and years,” he said.
Etta James’s Son Donto Says Addiction Was Part of Famed Singer’s Life | Christine Pelisek | November 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTEven in the present inquiry there can be no reasonable doubt of their competency to give us testimony.
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian SharmanHundreds of families were burned out, and reduced from opulence, or at least competency, to penury.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.Still, taking our officers in the aggregate, we believe that they are far below the standard even of respectable competency.
The undoubted competency of each reaches even to the paralysis or destruction of the rest.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 | Ministry of EducationIndeed, the physical competency attained in athletic games has its reaction upon every mental condition.
The Minister and the Boy | Allan Hoben
British Dictionary definitions for competency
/ (ˈkɒmpɪtənsɪ) /
law capacity to testify in a court of law; eligibility to be sworn
a less common word for competence (def. 1), competence (def. 2)
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