expertise
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French expertise.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛkspəˈtiːz/
- (Canada, US) IPA(key): /ˌɛkspɚˈtiːs/, /ˌɛkspɚˈtiːz/
- Rhymes: -iːz
Audio (US) (file)
Noun edit
expertise (countable and uncountable, plural expertises)
- Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby.
- The scientist has expertise in the field of nuclear fusion.
- 8 September 2014, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:
- He spoke of Scotland's hydroelectric projects in Africa, local expertise shared with the world's poor.
- Advice, or opinion, of an expert.
Translations edit
great skill or knowledge
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advice or opinion of an expert
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See also edit
Verb edit
expertise (third-person singular simple present expertises, present participle expertising, simple past and past participle expertised)
- (transitive, rare) To supply with expert knowledge or advice.
- 1985, Energy Research Abstracts, page 2720:
- Since 1979, we have developed a method for expertising the design of the processes and improving them.
- 2010, Donald Gray, Laura Colucci-Gray, Elena Camino, Science, Society and Sustainability, page 20:
- Including a plurality of different expertise in the decision-making processes corresponds to expertising the democratic procedures.
- 2011, Jens O. Parsson, Dying of Money, page 249:
- If experts shall lose their expertise, wherewith shall they be expertised? The fact that only the rare economists can be entrusted with economics is not reason to discard economics, but to go and find the rare men.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French expertise.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
expertise f (plural expertises or expertisen)
- expertise
- Synonyms: deskundigheid, kundigheid
- expert investigation
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
expertise f (plural expertises)
Descendants edit
- → Danish: ekspertise
- → English: expertise
- → German: Expertise
- → Italian: expertise
- → Norwegian Bokmål: ekspertise
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: ekspertise
- → Portuguese: expertise
- → Swedish: ekspertis
Further reading edit
- “expertise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French expertise.
Noun edit
expertise f (invariable)
Further reading edit
- expertise in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French expertise.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ex‧per‧ti‧se
Noun edit
expertise f (usually uncountable, plural expertises)
References edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French expertise.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
expertise f (plural expertises)