Capable of doing a certain thing; having capacity to understand, and act reasonably Topic areas: Governance, Staff Development and Organizational Capacity, Operations Management and Leadership
Competent, when referring to a worker, means adequately qualified, suitably trained, and with sufficient experience to safely perform work with or without minimal supervision
Vocational education term Refers to when you can actually perform a skill (usually unsupervised)
Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit
In mortgages and other contracts, competent essentially means "legally fit " For example, a competent buyer is a buyer who has the required age, ability and authority to sign a sales contract
The ability to make decisions for ones self as determined through due process in a court of law
Duly qualified; answering all requirements; having sufficient ability or authority; possessing the requisite natural or legal qualifications; able; adequate; suitable; sufficient; capable; legally fit / A testator may be said to be "competent" if he has mental capacity to understand the nature of his act, to understand and recollect the nature and situation of his property and his relations to persons having claims on his bounty and whose interests affected by his will I When generally applied to arbitrators, the term does not mean "expert" (Page 355) TOP
capable of doing a certain thing; having capacity to understand, and act reasonably
If you are competent to do something, you have the skills, abilities, or experience necessary to do it well. Most adults do not feel competent to deal with a medical emergency involving a child. = qualified