{
    "term": "competence",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the ability to do something well",
            "sensetop": "competence (in something)competence (in doing something)",
            "labels": "less frequent",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to gain a high level of competence in English"
                },
                {
                    "text": "professional/technical competence"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He gradually developed the competence to deal with the more difficult cases."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm afraid the work is beyond his competence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She shows a high level of technical competence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Students had questioned her competence as a teacher."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company's core competence lay in engineering."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This should be well within your competence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The course is aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "basic", "academic"],
                "verb + competence": ["have", "demonstrate", "display"],
                "preposition": [
                    "beyond somebody’s competence",
                    "within somebody’s competence",
                    "competence as"
                ],
                "phrases": ["a level of competence", "a standard of competence"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the power that a court, an organization or a person has to deal with something",
            "labels": "(law)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The judge has to act within the competence of the court."
                },
                {
                    "text": "outside somebody’s area of competence"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The decisions come within the competence of the committee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "matters that fall outside the court's competence"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The commission has no formal competence in cultural matters."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["formal", "exclusive"],
                "verb + competence": ["have"],
                "preposition": [
                    "outside somebody/​something’s competence",
                    "within somebody/​something’s competence"
                ],
                "phrases": ["an area of competence"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a skill that you need in a particular job or for a particular task",
            "labels": "less frequent(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The syllabus lists the knowledge and competences required at this level."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You will agree with us a personal learning contract, based on an assessment of personal competences in relation to career objectives."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒmpɪtəns/",
                "audio": "co/competence/competence__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːmpɪtəns/",
                "audio": "co/competence/competence__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}