incompetence
US: /ˌɪnˈkɑmpətəns/
UK: /ɪnkˈɒmpɪtəns/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
incompetence /in'kɔmpitəns/ (incompetency) /in'kɔmpitənsi/- danh từ
- sự thiếu khả năng, sự thiếu trình độ, sự kém cỏi, sự bất tài
- (pháp lý) sự không đủ thẩm quyền; sự không có thẩm quyền
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun[U] the lack of skill or ability to do your job or a task as it should be done: professional / managerial incompetence + government / police incompetence + He was dismissed for incompetence.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
inability, incapacity, inadequacy, insufficiency, deficiency, ineptitude, inefficiency, uselessness, faultiness:
The students' failure to perform well is often attributable to the incompetence of their teachers.
Collocation
ADJ.
gross, monumental | sheer | alleged | economic, professional, technical | government, managerial, police
VERB + INCOMPETENCE
display
He displayed his incompetence by turning in a report that was full of errors.
| tolerate
I will not tolerate your incompetence any longer!
| accuse sb/sth of, allege | be dismissed for
PREP.
~ at/in
incompetence in writing
| ~ on the part of
Several officers had alleged incompetence on the part of the general.
