Usually means: Adept and skilled in performance.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word proficient:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. proficient: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proficient: Merriam-Webster
  3. proficient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. proficient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. proficient: Collins English Dictionary
  6. proficient: Vocabulary.com
  7. Proficient, proficient: Wordnik
  8. proficient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. proficient: Wiktionary
  10. proficient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. proficient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. proficient: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Proficient, proficient: Dictionary.com
  14. proficient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Proficient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Proficient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. proficient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. proficient: Rhymezone
  19. proficient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. proficient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. proficient: FreeDictionary.org
  22. proficient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. proficient: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. proficient: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proficient: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proficient: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PROFICIENT: Masonic Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proficient: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See proficiently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Good at something; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
noun:  An expert.

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