Used in a Sentence

competent

How to use competent in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for competent.

Editorial note

You can be spending $100ks per monthon adwords and still not have a competent person to call when you need help.

Examples13
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient; "a competent typist"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of competent gathered in one view.

adjective

properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient; "a competent typist"

adjective

adequate for the purpose; "a competent performance"

adjective

legally qualified or sufficient; "a competent court"; "competent testimony"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for competent.

adjective

properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient; "a competent typist"

adjective

adequate for the purpose; "a competent performance"

adjective

legally qualified or sufficient; "a competent court"; "competent testimony"

Example sentences

1

You can be spending $100ks per monthon adwords and still not have a competent person to call when you need help.

2

Are you managing monkeys or are you managing highly competent human beings?

3

This is exactly what you don't want to have happen; a real culture adapts to any positive competent person you find.

4

Users are being asked to cut the database some slack for less than competent engineering choices but users just want a database to work.

5

The technical interview is overwhelmingly the primary screening method of choice at the world's most competent software development companies.

6

I'm working 40-60hr weeks trying to be competent in my current job, I simply don't have time to remember what I did 5 years and 2 jobs ago -- but it bothers me that I'm now functionally incompetent for a job that I used to be among the best at.

7

The exact quote is instead: "In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Frulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

8

She was an extremely dilligent and competent admin, did absolutely everything through configuration management and kept very thorough personal logs and documentation on the entire network.

9

Maybe you don't need them, but Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail enable hundreds of millions of people to communicate _for free_ with other people around the world that otherwise wouldn't be technically competent enough to buy a domain name and set up a local mail server.

10

My boss and my bosses's boss and all the HR people I'd give an F. Absolutely the most incompetent people I've worked with in 20 years of mostly working with startups where even really competent people have to struggle with immense difficulties and uncertainty, neither of which was present at Amazon, except to the extent created by incompetence, though this incompetence went all the way to the top. I saw other people leading other teams who were C & D players, so I presume my team was just particularly bad.

11

This seems to be a completely plausible claim, and that would be a reason why many American voters or leaders of countries allied to the United States might desire the current leadership of NSA to resign and be replaced with more competent leaders.

12

If she's too tough she's marked as an "angry bitch" and will get rejected, if she's not perfectly competent in areas far outside of her job function, she'll be marked as "stupid" and get rejected, etc. etc. Cultivating authority, for a woman, requires a degree of careful presentation and balance that is very hard to do and most men don't have to deal with.

13

I've worked for some very good women bosses and a women CEO and I admired their ability to find that balance and presentation style that gave them command without them appearing as an "angry bitch" or "stupid".I've also worked with some women that couldn't find that balance, they weren't really doing anything a reasonably competent man wouldn't do, but were marked with gendered epithets and eventually driven from their job.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use competent in a sentence?

You can be spending $100ks per monthon adwords and still not have a competent person to call when you need help.

What does competent mean?

properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient; "a competent typist"

What part of speech is competent?

competent is commonly used as adjective.