noun
1 ability to do sth well
ADJECTIVE
▪ great
▪ basic
▪ academic , administrative , clinical , managerial , professional , technical
▪ communicative , language , linguistic
▪ athletic
▪ cultural , emotional , social
▪ core
▪
The company's core ~ lay in engineering.
VERB + COMPETENCE
▪ have
▪ demonstrate , display , prove , show
▪
She shows a high level of technical ~.
▪ lack
▪ achieve , acquire , develop , gain
▪
He gradually developed the ~ to deal with the more difficult cases.
▪ increase , promote
▪ challenge , question
▪ assess , evaluate
PREPOSITION
▪ beyond sb's ~
▪
I'm afraid the work is beyond his ~.
▪ within sb's ~
▪
This should be well within your ~.
▪ ~ as
▪
Students had questioned her ~ as a teacher.
▪ ~ for
▪
He displayed great ~ for the job.
▪ ~ in
▪
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PHRASES
▪ a level of ~ , a standard of ~
2 power to deal with sth
ADJECTIVE
▪ formal
▪ exclusive
VERB + COMPETENCE
▪ have
▪
The commission has no formal ~ in cultural matters.
PREPOSITION
▪ outside sb/sth's ~
▪
matters that fall outside the court's ~
▪ within sb/sth's ~
▪
The decisions come within the ~ of the committee.
PHRASES
▪ an area of ~