Usually means: Adequately skilled for specific task.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word competent:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. competent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. competent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. competent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. competent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. competent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Competent, competent: Wordnik
  7. competent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. competent: Wiktionary
  9. competent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. competent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. competent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. competent: Dictionary.com
  13. competent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. competent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Competent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Competent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. competent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. competent: Rhymezone
  19. competent, competent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. competent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. competent: Free Dictionary
  22. competent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. competent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. competent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. competent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. competent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. competent: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. competent: Legal dictionary
  6. competent: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. competent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. competent: Medical dictionary

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
adjective:  (law) Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
adjective:  Adequate for the purpose.
adjective:  (biology, of a cell wall) Permeable to foreign DNA.
adjective:  (geology) Resistant to deformation or flow.

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