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"ref": "1811, Jane Austen, chapter 17, in Sense and Sensibility",
"text": "money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.",
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"ref": "1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 26",
"text": "A few years ago there lived in a city on the Mississippi a happy family, consisting of a husband, wife, and two children. They were in comfortable circumstances—he able to earn a competence—kind, affable, affectionate, […]",
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"A sustainable income."
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"(dated) A sustainable income."
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"sense": "income",
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"word": "Einkommen"
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"ref": "2016, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, “Division of competences in the European Union”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
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"ref": "2003, Rodrigo Uprimny, “The constitutional court and control of presidential extraordinary powers in Colombia”, in Democratization, archived from the original on 2021-05-09",
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"word": "باعرضه"
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"roman": "merodávnost",
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},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "legal authority to deal with a matter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "autorización"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "legal authority to deal with a matter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "potestad"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "legal authority to deal with a matter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "competencia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "legal authority to deal with a matter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "incumbencia"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kompeténtnistʹ",
"sense": "legal authority to deal with a matter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "компете́нтність"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kompeténcija",
"sense": "legal authority to deal with a matter",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "компете́нція"
}
],
"word": "competence"
}
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