competence vs competency
Definitions
noun
- the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
Examples
Bounties were paid right across a banking sector whose incompetence threw thousands of innocents into jeopardy.
He says the Pension Funds Act should require that trustees have the qualities of honesty and integrity, the competence to fulfil the duties of a trustee, a minimum academic qualification, such as matric, and some relevant experience.
Other usual reasons for disqualification, including adjudgement of incompetence or quasi-incompetence, shall also apply.
Definitions
noun
- the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
Examples
But freshman composition, like the writing test, assumed a level of competency that few of these students had attained.
But freshman composition, like the writing test, assumed a level of competency that few of these students had attained.
The "incompetency" of criminal defendants to testify at their own trials was part of the common law of England and then the United States until the Nineteenth Century, during which incompetency gave way to the notion that the basis for disqualification - the defendant's
