Competency

1. n. Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.
2. n. The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.
3. n. Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
4. n. Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.