core competency

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noun

a skill needed in order to be successful at a job or other activity: Several core competencies have been identified as critical to the success of every student.

a particular area of knowledge or expertise that gives a business a competitive advantage: The automaker's core competency is sports cars.

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Origin of core competency

First recorded in 1990–95

Words nearby core competency

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How to use core competency in a sentence

It further offers the potential to focus on core competencies while collaborating to explore new and adjacent opportunities.
Driving digital transformation for medical tech companies|Siemens Healthineers|May 27, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Each session is designed to tackle one of the many core competencies any startup needs to be successful.
TechCrunch Early Stage is the startup bootcamp you’ve always needed|Jordan Crook|February 26, 2021|TechCrunch
That’s a core competency at Intuit, which has stayed independent by disrupting itself over the decades to meet the advent of the Windows operating system, the Internet, mobile devices, and cloud computing.
Intuit’s CEO on the $7.1 billion Credit Karma acquisition, reorienting toward A.I., and reskilling workers|Geoffrey Colvin|December 22, 2020|Fortune
It is a spy series at its core, but you guys never really pull from the headlines.
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS|Marlow Stern|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Another read: “We need leaders who will stand against Common Core.”
Rand Paul’s Passive-Aggressive Trolling Campaign|Olivia Nuzzi|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A soldier in the service of ideals and aspirations that formed his core.
Mario Cuomo, Always Moving Us Toward the Light|Mike Barnicle|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Some of them would open up deep splits in core Democratic constituencies.
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society|Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Politicians who openly associated with Duke, or his hard-core associates, did so at their own risk.
The Louisiana Racists Who Courted Steve Scalise|Jason Berry|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But Harris, exhausted and shaken as he was to the very core, paced by his side, only half listening.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
In moments of utter bereavement who has not felt, to the heart's core, the tender attachment of a faithful dog?
The World Before Them|Susanna Moodie
It was one of the conservative sheets, comic-less, reactionary Republican to the core.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The measure of oil also, a bate of oil is the tenth part of a core: and ten bates make a core: for ten bates fill a core.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
She peered at first into Um's room for there, indeed, lay the core of old Mata's heart.
The Dragon Painter|Mary McNeil Fenollosa