competence
B1CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The legal and mental fitness to make an informed decision about one's own treatment.
The assessment confirmed his competence to refuse the recommended procedure.
Law noun
The authority conferred on the Union to act in a given field.
The measure exceeded the Union's competence in the sphere of public health.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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