Usually means: Adequate skill or knowledge level.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word proficiency:

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  1. proficiency: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proficiency: Merriam-Webster
  3. proficiency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. proficiency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. proficiency: Collins English Dictionary
  6. proficiency: Vocabulary.com
  7. Proficiency, proficiency: Wordnik
  8. proficiency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. proficiency: Wiktionary
  10. proficiency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. proficiency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. proficiency: Dictionary.com
  13. proficiency: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. proficiency: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Proficiency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Proficiency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. proficiency: Rhymezone
  18. Proficiency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. proficiency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. proficiency: FreeDictionary.org
  21. proficiency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. proficiency: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. proficiency: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  Ability, skill, competence.

Similar:
facility, technique, potency, skill, abilitude, capacity, ease, competency, capableness, availableness, more...

Opposite:
incompetence

Types:
basic, intermediate, advanced, fluent, native-like, expert, professional, skilled, competent, more...

Phrases:
proficiency tests, proficiency badge, EF English Proficiency Index, Japanese-Language Proficiency Test, Test of Proficiency in Korean, more...

Adjectives:
english, technical, great, limited, oral, considerable, foreign, academic, high, language, linguistic

Colors:
    teal,     royal blue,     emerald,     forest green,     burgundy, more...


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Similar:
facility, technique, potency, skill, abilitude, capacity, ease, competency, capableness, availableness, more...

Opposite:
incompetence

Types:
basic, intermediate, advanced, fluent, native-like, expert, professional, skilled, competent, more...

Phrases:
proficiency tests, proficiency badge, EF English Proficiency Index, Japanese-Language Proficiency Test, Test of Proficiency in Korean, C2 Proficiency, Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program, more...

Adjectives:
english, technical, great, limited, oral, considerable, foreign, academic, high, language, linguistic

Colors:
    teal,     royal blue,     emerald,     forest green,     burgundy, more...



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