technical competence

collocation in English

meaningsoftechnicalandcompetence

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technical
adjective
uk
/ˈtek.nɪ.kəl/us
/ˈtek.nɪ.kəl/
relating to the knowledge, machines, or methods used in science ...
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competence
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkɒm.pɪ.təns/us
/ˈkɑːm.pə.t̬əns/
the ability to do ...
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(Definition oftechnicalandcompetencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The tools oftechnicalcompetenceare employed, (legal language, reliance on precedent for example), a process reflecting the need for securing efficiency.
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The school believed thattechnicalcompetenceautomatically yields ethical practice.
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This second aim was pursued in part by casting doubt on thetechnicalcompetenceof chemists to investigate fusion phenomena.
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However, acquiescence in the superiortechnicalcompetenceof the government was itself a political stance and worked in favour of specific political interests.
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The laboratory concluded that it needed to educate prospective customers - because, it noted, there was a link betweentechnicalcompetenceand reasonable expectations.
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Technicalcompetencewas comparably central to the new elite's composition.
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This clash of interests between social and military hierarchies continued well beyond the early modern period, pitting individual prowess againsttechnicalcompetence, professional efficiency, and corporate endeavour.
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There is always debate about the way architecture should be taught and how the balance between conceptual 'design' andtechnicalcompetenceshould be achieved.
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The belief in the infallibility of science sets aside the issue oftechnicalcompetence, it assumes by definition that life extension (and even immortality) can be achieved.
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Treatment guidelines and recommendations are increasingly used to definetechnicalcompetence, and are based on scientific evidence and expert opinion.
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Typically, a firm that contacts a council will be asked to complete a pre-qualification questionnaire probing such matters as the company'stechnicalcompetenceand financial soundness.
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To be excellent at understanding what happens in the laboratory, but to ignore evidence of the real-world consequences of one's medical acts, is a suboptimal definition oftechnicalcompetence.
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Again, lack oftechnicalcompetence, weak political leadership and inadequate budgets were ranked far behind these two factors.
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In the second type of competence-based trust, most people are not trusted in principle, but some of them are trusted on the grounds of professional ortechnicalcompetence.
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We do not intend to do so, because it istechnicalcompetencethat we seek there.
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The condition of all that istechnicalcompetence.
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Transitional arrangements will he included in the regulations to ensure the orderly introduction of the assessment oftechnicalcompetence.
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There is no doubt that both in discovery and in production we have been working throughout recent years at the extreme limits oftechnicalcompetence.
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It is true that we need men with the quality of leaders, and with the necessarytechnicalcompetence.
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