Usually means: Ability to effectively perform tasks.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word competency:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. competency: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. competency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. competency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. competency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. competency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Competency, competency: Wordnik
  7. competency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. competency: Wiktionary
  9. competency: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. competency: Dictionary.com
  11. Competency (human resources), Competency (linguistics), Competency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Competency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. competency: Rhymezone
  14. Competency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. competency: Free Dictionary
  16. competency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. competency: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. competency: Legal dictionary
  5. competency: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. competency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Competency: Merck Manuals
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  4. competency: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Competency: Biology dictionary
  2. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) A sufficient supply (of).
noun:  (obsolete) A sustainable income.
noun:  The ability to perform some task; competence.
noun:  (law) Meeting specified qualifications to perform.
noun:  (linguistics) Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.

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