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adj. Properly or sufficiently qualified; capable: a competent typist.

adj. Adequate for the purpose: a competent performance.

adj. Law Legally qualified or fit to perform an act.

adj. Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.

adj. Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.

adj. Adequate for the purpose

adj. Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.

adj. Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.

Answering all requirements; suitable; fit; sufficient or adequate for the purpose: as, competent supplies of food and clothing; an army competent to the defense of the kingdom.

Having ability or capacity; properly qualified: as, a competent bookkeeper.

In law, having legal capacity or qualification: as, a competent judge or court; a competent witness.

Rightfully or lawfully belonging; pertaining by right; permissible: followed by to.

Fitted, etc. See qualified.

n. One of the competentes (which see).

In physical geography, of a stream, capable of transporting fragments of a given size.

In geology, having sufficient firmness and strength to transmit pressure to other strata or to lift an overlying burden, as a rock or stratum.

adj. properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient

adj. adequate for the purpose

adj. legally qualified or sufficient

"Devaud said that a Pakistani government anti-corruption agency had posted on its Web site what he described as competent English-language translations of the original orders he had issued against Bhutto, Zardari and Schlegelmilch in 2003."

workmanlike    able    capable    effective    efficient    adequate    equal   

competent and omitted   

competentness    competition    competence    compete   

qualified    adequate    sufficient    suitable    capable    fit    incident    able   

able    skilled    talented    efficient    capable    reliable    conscientious    respectable    trustworthy    shrewd