competence

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inability and awkwardness
accident-prone
adorkable
all thumbsidiom
amateurish
amateurishly
fumbling
fumblingly
functional illiteracy
gauche
gauchely
inexpertly
jack-of-all-trades
jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
klutzy
like a bull in a china shopidiom
uncoordinated
uneducable
unenterprising
unequal
ungainly

incompetence | Business English

incompetence
noun[ U ]
uk /ɪnˈkɒmpɪtəns/us
lack of the ability, skill, or knowledge that is needed to do a job or perform an action correctly or to a satisfactory standard:
to demonstrate/expose/reveal incompetence
gross/sheer/utter incompetenceAn audit reveals areas of gross incompetence and the mismanagement of the business.
administrative/bureaucratic/managerial incompetence

Examples of incompetence

incompetence
In all cases, these intifadat amounted to protests against social inequality, corruption, nepotism, authoritarianism, and the regime's incompetence.
Some pundits charged that the military's complete decay, especially the cowardice and incompetence of its commanders, had precipitated the debacle of 1847.
Congenital tricuspid incompetence simulating pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum, a report of two cases.
Yet linguistic incompetence hardly advances the linguistic turn.
An eight-year-old boy was known for many years to have mild congenital aortic incompetence.
This could be the consequence of turbulent flow at that site or, alternatively, to the presence of some degree of aortic incompetence in these cases.
We should resist the temptation to follow him, however misanthropic we may be, because human wickedness and incompetence without providence will produce only chaos.
Finally, anxiety in preadolescence was associated with developmental incompetence in adolescence.
Correlational analyses showed few associations between incompetence and adolescent depressive symptoms.
Initial follow-up showed moderate pulmonary incompetence, with no clinical or echocardiographic evidence of obstruction in either the right or left ventricular outflow tracts.
Incapacity can be proven once a diagnostic threshold of mental incompetence is passed.
The records of 10 children who had undergone repair of severe congenital mitral incompetence were also reviewed retrospectively.
He is then likely to be confrontational with his physician and charge the doctor with incompetence.
Pulmonary incompetence does not occur in the normal fetal heart.
The degree of mitral incompetence did not change significantly.
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Collocations withincompetence

incompetence

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example of incompetence
The whole exercise was an example of incompetence or, possibly, a lack of interest in consumer welfare.
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