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单词 incompetence
释义
incompetence
(ɪnkɒmpɪtəns )
uncountable noun
If you refer to someone's incompetence, you are criticizing them because they are unable to do their job or a task properly. [disapproval]
The incompetence of government officials is appalling. [+ of]
...his incompetence in failing to conduct full inquiries.
Synonyms: ineptitude, inability, inadequacy, incapacity  
Collocations:
administrative incompetence
The causes of this are, too frequently, administrative incompetence.
Times, Sunday Times
How many other sports would have grown in the teeth of such administrative incompetence and crass infighting?
Times, Sunday Times
Adhocracy, functional leadership models, and reengineering were all attempts to detect and remove administrative incompetence.
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military incompetence
I had no idea she had a thing for military incompetence.
Times, Sunday Times
He argues, however, that focusing on military incompetence misses the mark.
Christianity Today
Military incompetence was therefore more visible, the army became more accountable, but counter-propaganda could also be got out faster.
The Times Literary Supplement
If there was something, then this was surely an act of high-level military incompetence.
Times, Sunday Times
His inexperience and degree of military incompetence makes him something of a liability on occasion.
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political incompetence
Both regional and central governments now stand accused of political incompetence as nobody accepts responsibility for what doctors call a failure.
Times,Sunday Times
And made urgent by current political incompetence and disarray.
Times, Sunday Times
The case for congenital political incompetence will scarcely hold water.
The Times Literary Supplement
How was he to know that political incompetence was the key qualification for the job?
Times, Sunday Times
Charges of police and political incompetence were levelled from the beginning.
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sheer incompetence
A minister would come under intense pressure as a result of personal or financial foibles, or just sheer incompetence.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It was about sheer incompetence.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He can provide mountains of evidence of waste, corruption and sheer incompetence by unaccountable officials.
The Sun (2012)
Now it seems I am unable to stay down out of sheer incompetence.
The Sun (2016)
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