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competency 音标拼音: [k'ɑmpətɪnsi] n. 胜任;资格;能力 胜任;资格;能力 competency n 1: the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually [ synonym: { competence}, { competency}] [ ant: { incompetence}, { incompetency}] Competence \ Com" pe* tence\, Competency \ Com" pe* ten* cy\, n. [ Cf. F. comp[' e] tence, from L. competentia agreement.] 1. The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power. [ 1913 Webster] The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] To make them act zealously is not in the competence of law. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess. [ 1913 Webster] Reason' s whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words -- health, peace, and competence. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Law) ( a) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence. ( b) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court. -- Kent. [ 1913 Webster] 5. the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually, especially possession of the skill and knowledge required ( for a task). [ WordNet 1. 5 PJC] COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account- books, and the like. 2. Prima facie every person offered is a competent witness, and must be received, unless Lis incompetency ( q. v.) appears. 9 State Tr. 652. 3. There is a difference between competency and credibility. A witness may be competent, and, on examination, his story may be so contradictory and improbable that he may not be believed; on the contrary he may be incompetent, and yet be perfectly credible if he were examined. 4. The court are the sole judges of the competency of a witness, and may, for the purpose of deciding whether the witness is or is not competent, ascertain all the facts necessary to form a judgment. Vide 8 Watts, R. 227; and articles Credibility; Incompetency; Interest; Witness. 5. In the French law, by competency is understood the right in a court to exercise jurisdiction in a particular case; as, where the, law gives jurisdiction to the court when a thousand francs shall be in dispute, the court is competent if, the sum demanded is a thousand francs or upwards, although the plaintiff may ultimately recover less.
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