competency

competency
competency 1590s, "rivalry;" c.1600, "sufficiency to satisfy the wants of life," from L. competentia "meeting together, agreement, symmetry," from competens, prp. of competere (see COMPETE (Cf. compete)). Meaning "sufficiency of qualification" is recorded from 1797.

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