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incompetence
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Word definitions for incompetence in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ City money is being wasted through governmental incompetence . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was posted first to Reading, and was soon proving himself a soldier and horseman of rare incompetence . ▪ Hence, their skilfulness ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Incompetence is a dystopian comedy novel by Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant , first published in 2003 with the tag line "Bad is the new Good". It is a murder mystery and political thriller set in a near-future federal Europe where no-one can be "prejudiced ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incompetence \In*com"pe*tence\, Incompetency \In*com"pe*tency\, n. [Cf. F. incomp['e]tence.] The quality or state of being incompetent; lack of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; lack of qualifications or training (for a particular task); insufficiency; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications [syn: incompetency ] [ant: competence ] inability of a part or organ to function properly
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "inadequacy;" 1716, "want of skill," from French incompétence (mid-16c.), from in- "not, opposite of, without" (see in- (1)) + compétence (see competence ). Native formation incompetency (from incompetent + -cy ) is attested from 1610s.
Usage examples of incompetence.
There was a culture in the Bureau that dismissed the work of earnest brick agents like Nancy Floyd and her colleagues in Minneapolis while rewarding the mean-spirited incompetence of supervisors.
He used to work for Boolean but the old boy exiled him to Yobi in the Kudaan, apparently for incompetence.
Mr Rackham is in a constant foul temper and makes threats and accusations of incompetence to any girl who fails to anticipate his whims.
The official story was that Shaiknam was on leave while Farle got more command experience, although the real reason Shaiknam had been taken out of the post was his incompetence.
Rickman rolled his eyes to try to suppress his rage at the incompetence and feeblemindedness that seemed to abound within the ranks of his men.
They are more real to us, that is to say, they more inexpugnably assert and maintain themselves, than material things do: and it is only hopeless vulgarity and incompetence of thinking which can ever confuse or merge them with material things.
The grand duke had required the shaman to taste the meal first, before Jagiellon devoured the remainder, on the off chance that a fanatic might have poisoned his own skin before displeasing the ruler of Lithuania with his incompetence.
It will mean the penalization of real worth and the endowment of inferiority and incompetence.
He is the laborer who has gone astray and who either from apathy, unintelligence, incompetence, or some immediately pressing need prefers his own individual interest to the joint interests of himself and his fellow-laborers.
Because of the interfering incompetence of those same off worlders whose cycle of tyranny she had hoped to break.
More than financial mismanagement, budgetary constraints and political incompetence, I think this is the key to the failure of the SSC.
It should have been a public inquiry into the crass incompetence of William Carter, Interpol's English archivist entrusted honoured with assembling and annotating all the uncollated material about the organization's most famous officer.
Parliament needs armament factories because armaments are great business and all governments like war--because wars are great business, and, most of all, because war covers up their own sodding incompetence.
Sure, the Bobcats were set to win, but the kid's sudden attack of incompetence was no mere fluke.
To be defeated by sorcery was a permissible defeat for a mundane-hard as that admission would be for himbut to be bushwacked by a band of ragtag youths was abysmal incompetence.