competently

competent | American Dictionary

competent
adjective
us/ˈkɑm·pə·t̬ənt/
having the skills or knowledge to do something well enough to meet a basic standard:
[ + to infinitive ]All we want is someone competent to manage the staff.
law having enough mental ability for a particular purpose:
[ + to infinitive ]The judge decided that he was competent to stand trial.

competence

noun[ U ]us/ˈkɑm·pə·t̬əns/
He reached a reasonable level of competence in English.

competent | Business English

competent
adjective
uk /ˈkɒmpɪtənt/us
able to do something well:
A competent sales manager should have known exactly what to do in that situation.
Operators must be fully competent in the use of the system.
We have highly competent consultants, with a broad range of expertise.
good enough, but not excellent:
People who work for us need to be more than merely competent; they need to excel.
LAW
able or allowed to make legal decisions:
The prospective jurors did not indicate whether they thought the plaintiff was competent.

competently

adverbuk /ˈkɒmpɪtəntli/ us /ˈkɑːmpəṱənt-/
Each candidate implies that the other cannot be trusted to run the economy competently.

Examples of competent

competent
All the others were competent, though too often telling us what we have long known already.
However, the application of a primitive dictionary is not always sufficient; auxiliary data must often be considered to make a competent translation.
In this situation, voters face a standard inference problem of predicting the unobservable type (whether competent or not) of the incumbent from the observable policy.
On the possibilities of becoming a monolingual but competent speaker.
It is at this point that we see the patient display a fully competent appreciation of a planned interactional sequence.
The aorta arose from the large left ventricle through a competent bicuspid valve.
In addition, the trajectory of acoustic change over time may also be reflective of competent development.
This would then provide a 'less competent' model for mouse meiotic maturation in vitro.
The case is presented in philosophical competent way but without use of technical vocabulary and with little reference to learned literature.
This paper calls into question notions of what it means to be a competent communicator in the virtual world.
Where competent transmission hosts are more or less completely replaced, rather than augmented, by non-competent host species, enzootic cycles may be severely limited.
Additionally, we are interested in whether maltreated and nonmaltreated children will differ in their resilient self-strivings and in their developmental pathways to competent functioning.
The point is that in neither case are we limiting the liberty of competent adults in order to keep them from harming themselves.
The result is a competent, professionally written, totally conventional work, nearly all of which presents material already found in other sources.
The late average age of onset (2;4) supports our claim that competent use of apologies represents mastery of a relatively more challenging pragmatic skill.
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