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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
proficient/prəˈfɪʃnt/
▶adjective competent or skilled in doing or using something.
– derivatives
proficiency noun,
proficiently adverb.
proficiency noun,
proficiently adverb.
– origin C16: from L. proficient-, proficere ‘to advance’, from pro- ‘on behalf of’ + facere ‘do, make’.
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proficient at or proficient in?
proficient in/at and skilled in/at
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