Noun

(competencies)

(obsolete) A sufficient supply (of).

* 1612 , John Smith, Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia , in Kupperman 1988, p. 178:

the next day they returned unsuspected, leaving their confederates to follow, and in the interim, to convay them a competencie of all things they could

* (Ambrose Bierce)

(obsolete) A sustainable income.

* Shakespeare

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

* 1915 , :

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. He knew that the lack made a man petty, mean, grasping; it distorted his character and caused him to view the world from a vulgar angle; when you had to consider every penny, money became of grotesque importance: you needed a competency to rate it at its proper value.

The ability to perform some task; competence.

* Burke

The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause.

* 2004 , Bill Clinton, My Life

By the year 2000, American students will leave grades four, eight, and twelve having demonstrated competency in challenging subject matter including English, mathematics, science, history, and geography....

(legal) Meeting specified qualifications to perform.

(linguistics) implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.

Noun

(facilities)

The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.

*, II.12:

Clytomachus'' affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of ''Carneades'', what opinion he was of. Why hath ''Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?

Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.

The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.

The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.

Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)

, chapter=1, title= Internal Combustion , passage=As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities .}}

(North America, in the plural) A toilet.