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incompetencia

incompetence

noun een-kohm-peh-TEN-syah Rare

Usage Note

Incompetencia refers to a lack of ability or skill to perform a required task — incompetencia profesional, incompetencia administrativa. The adjective is incompetente. Note that in legal Spanish incompetencia also has the specific sense of a court lacking jurisdiction (incompetencia del tribunal), distinct from the everyday sense of ineptitude.

Examples

"Fue despedido por incompetencia manifiesta."

Natural Translation

He was fired for manifest incompetence.

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