Competent vs Expertise - What's the difference?
competent | expertise |
Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
(legal) Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
Adequate for the purpose
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby
* 2014 , Michael White, "
advice, or opinion, of an expert
As an adjective competent
is having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.As a noun expertise is
great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby.competent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.
- For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.
- judicial authority having competent jurisdiction
- "For if [birds] had been Viviparous , the burthen of their womb, if they had brought forth any competent number at a time, had been so big and heavy, that their wings would have failed them "
Quotations
* "I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter." - James Joyce, Ulysses , 1922 * "That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void." - James Joyce, Ulysses , 1922expertise
English
Noun
(wikipedia expertise) (-)- The scientist has expertise in the field of nuclear fusion.
Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
- He spoke of Scotland's hydroelectric projects in Africa, local expertise shared with the world's poor.