{
    "term": "competent",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "having enough skill or knowledge to do something well or to the necessary standard",
            "sensetop": "competent to do somethingcompetent at something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He's very competent in his work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Make sure the firm is competent to carry out the work.",
                    "contextForm": "competent to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don’t feel competent to comment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is highly competent at her job.",
                    "contextForm": "competent at something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was not considered competent to teach seven-year-olds."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is competent in five languages."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was mentally competent and he had the capacity to decide for himself."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a small number of highly competent officials"
                },
                {
                    "text": "mentally competent to stand trial"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's now a highly confident and competent teacher."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You should keep practising until you're fully competent."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "of a good standard but not very good",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Ron was a competent player—more than that, he was good!"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "having the power to decide something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The case was referred to a competent authority."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒmpɪtənt/",
                "audio": "co/competent/competent__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːmpɪtənt/",
                "audio": "co/competent/competent__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘suitable, adequate’): from Latin competent-, from the verb competere in its earlier sense ‘be fit or proper’, from com- ‘together’ + petere ‘aim at, seek’."
}