Acquirement vs Competence - What's the difference?
acquirement | competence | Related terms |
The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.
* (rfdate) (Joseph Addison):
* (rfdate) Hayward?:
* 1952 , Annual report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army
(uncountable) The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
* 2005 , Lies Sercu and Ewa Bandura, Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence: An International Investigation :
(countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task.
* 1961 , National Council for Elementary Science (U.S.), Science Education :
A sustainable income.
* Alexander Pope
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 17
(countable) In law, the legal authority to deal with a matter.
Acquirement is a related term of competence.
As nouns the difference between acquirement and competence
is that acquirement is the act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment while competence is skill.acquirement
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(en noun)- At best, a considerable time elapses between authorization and land acquirement , during which land values may vary impredictably.
Synonyms
* acquisitionUsage notes
* is used in opposition to a natural gift or talent. For example, eloquence, and skill in music and painting are acquirements, whereas genius is the gift or endowment of nature. It denotes especially personal attainments, in opposition to material or external things gained, which are more usually called acquisitions; but this distinction is not always observed.competence
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- Teachers are now required to teach intercultural communicative competence .
- What professional competences do science teachers need?
- Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence .
- “money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence , it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.”
- That question is out with the competence of this court and must be taken to a higher court.