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单词 incompetence
释义
incompetence
noun[U]
uk
/ɪnˈkɒm.pɪ.təns/us
/ɪnˈkɑːm.pə.t̬əns/
lackofabilityto do somethingsuccessfullyor as it should be done:
无能力；不胜任，不称职
Management havedemonstratedalmostunbelievableincompetence intheirhandlingof thedispute.管理层在处理这一纠纷时显示出了令人难以置信的无能。
allegations/accusationsof incompetence不称职指控／指责
Opposite
competence
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Inability and awkwardness
  • accident-prone
  • adorkable
  • all thumbsidiom
  • amateurish
  • amateurishly
  • for toffeeidiom
  • fumble
  • functional illiteracy
  • gauche
  • geek
  • jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom
  • klutzy
  • like a bull in a china shopidiom
  • lost
  • lubber
  • unable
  • uncoordinated
  • uneducable
  • unenterprising
  • unequal
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(Definition ofincompetencefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

incompetence| Business English

incompetence
noun[U]
uk
/ɪnˈkɒmpɪtəns/us
lackof theability,skill, orknowledgethat isneededto do ajoborperformanactioncorrectlyor to asatisfactorystandard:
todemonstrate/expose/revealincompetence
gross/sheer/utter incompetenceAnauditrevealsareasofgrossincompetence and themismanagementof thebusiness.
administrative/bureaucratic/managerialincompetence
(Definition ofincompetencefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofincompetence

incompetence
In all cases, these intifadat amounted to protests against social inequality, corruption, nepotism, authoritarianism, and the regime'sincompetence.
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Some pundits charged that the military's complete decay, especially the cowardice andincompetenceof its commanders, had precipitated the debacle of 1847.
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Congenital tricuspidincompetencesimulating pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum, a report of two cases.
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Yet linguisticincompetencehardly advances the linguistic turn.
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An eight-year-old boy was known for many years to have mild congenital aorticincompetence.
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This could be the consequence of turbulent flow at that site or, alternatively, to the presence of some degree of aorticincompetencein these cases.
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We should resist the temptation to follow him, however misanthropic we may be, because human wickedness andincompetencewithout providence will produce only chaos.
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Finally, anxiety in preadolescence was associated with developmentalincompetencein adolescence.
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Correlational analyses showed few associations betweenincompetenceand adolescent depressive symptoms.
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Initial follow-up showed moderate pulmonaryincompetence, with no clinical or echocardiographic evidence of obstruction in either the right or left ventricular outflow tracts.
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Incapacity can be proven once a diagnostic threshold of mentalincompetenceis passed.
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The records of 10 children who had undergone repair of severe congenital mitralincompetencewere also reviewed retrospectively.
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He is then likely to be confrontational with his physician and charge the doctor withincompetence.
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Pulmonaryincompetencedoes not occur in the normal fetal heart.
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The degree of mitralincompetencedid not change significantly.
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Collocationswithincompetence

incompetence

These are words often used in combination withincompetence.

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example of incompetence
The whole exercise was an example of incompetence or, possibly, a lack of interest in consumer welfare.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
gross incompetence
The government too showedgrossincompetencein its handling of the policy.
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level of incompetence
That is the level of incompetence with which we are dealing.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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