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How to use competency in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Competency means the ability to perform some task; competence. Example: “The publisher's core competency was paperbacks, but they decided to branch out into online publishing.”

Examples of competency by meaning

nounThe ability to perform some task; competence.

  • What professional competencies do science teachers need?1961, National Council for Elementary Science (U.S.), Science Education
  • These are being retained on the Yorkshire routes to keep driver competency in one area, to help with operations.2021 May 19, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: LNER to return Class 91s/Mk 4s to East Coast duties”, in Rail, number 931, page 26

More sentences with competency

  • The publisher's core competency was paperbacks, but they decided to branch out into online publishing.From the entry core competency
  • Going forward we plan to leverage our core competencies to gain market share.From the entry going forward
  • What have you got to lose to challenge an exam, or do a competency exam?1996, Senate Legislative Record ... Legislature State of Maine. From the entry challenge
  • When it works well, Mank feels like the inheritance and renovation of a range of craft competencies and attentions.2021 May 9, J. D. Connor, “Put Some 'Mank' on It”, in Los Angeles Review of Books. From the entry Glup Shitto
  • Think of this ability and willingness to step up as a competency or skill that you can develop over time.2014, Henry Evans, Colm Foster, Step Up, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry step up to the plate
  • An overchallenge involves an imbalance, such that the level of difficulty in the occupational form exceeds the competencies in the developmental structure.2003, Paula Kramer, Jim Hinojosa, Charlotte Brasic Royeen, Perspectives in Human Occupation: Participation in Life. From the entry overchallenge
  • In order for those positive developments to occur for the LGB teen, however, there are certain strategies and competencies that school counselors need.1995, Gerald Unks, “Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Teens”, in The Gay Teen: Educational Practice and Theory for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual…. From the entry LGBTeen
  • In order for those positive developments to occur for the LGB teen, there are certain strategies and competencies that school counselors need.1993, University of North Carolina Press for the School of Education, The High School Journal, volumes 77-78, University of North…. From the entry LGBTeen
  • Backward design can be applied to medical education by beginning with the national standards or competencies for medical education, defining outcomes and assessment methods, and then defining curricular content.2016, Jill Stefaniak, Advancing Medical Education Through Strategic Instructional Design. From the entry backward design
  • T-shape: These roles have broad and deep competencies and are in the middle of the chain, for example, information architect, infrastructure architect, business architect or solution architect.2016 November 30, Sameer Paradkar, Cracking the IT Architect Interview, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry T-shape
  • The proper application of adult protection statutes to incompetent people will often be as dependent on thorough, fair, complete competency assessment as the imposition of guardianship is.1994, Michel Silberfeld, Arthur Fish, When the Mind Fails: A Guide to Dealing with Incompetency, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry adult protection
  • What Netflix really covets is closer to its current competencies: WBD's “intellectual property”, or in plain English, franchises such as Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Friends, pictured, and The Sopranos.2025 December 6, “Netflix’s WBD deal swaps history for fantasy”, in FT Weekend (Lex section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN…. From the entry covet
  • Manners that, if he played artful, he might even now obtain the position of outside porter; you got no pay there, but you could gain a moderate competency by fluffing.1900, The Railway Magazine, volume 7, page 559. From the entry fluff

Meaning of competency

  1. noun The ability to perform some task; competence.
  2. noun An individual's capacity to understand the nature and implications of their legal rights and obligations.
  3. noun Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.

Full definition of competency

Questions about competency in a sentence

How do you use competency in a sentence?
Competency is used as a noun. For example: “The publisher's core competency was paperbacks, but they decided to branch out into online publishing.”
What is a short sentence with competency?
“What professional competencies do science teachers need?”
What does competency mean?
Competency means the ability to perform some task; competence.

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