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means A specific, demonstrable ability or skill that someone can be assessed as having — the kind of thing you'd check a box for rather than just admire.

from From Latin 'competentia' (being suitable or fit), from 'competere' meaning to strive together, coincide, or be suitable — originally 'com-' (together) plus 'petere' (to seek or aim at). The word spent centuries meaning simple sufficiency, as in 'a competency' of income to live on. Its leap into HR-speak as a countable, assessable unit of workplace skill is a 20th-century invention, when management theorists started trying to break jobs down into measurable traits — turning a soft word for 'being adequate' into something you could audit.