expertise
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French expertise.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɛkspəˈtiːz/
- (Canada, US) IPA(key): /ˌɛkspɚˈtiːs/, /ˌɛkspɚˈtiːz/
- Rhymes: -iːz
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
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
great skill or knowledge
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advice or opinion of an expert
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See also
Verb
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
Etymology
Borrowed from French expertise.
Pronunciation
Noun
expertise f (plural expertises or expertisen)
- expertise
- Synonyms: deskundigheid, kundigheid
- expert investigation
Derived terms
Related terms
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
expertise f (plural expertises)
Descendants
- → Danish: ekspertise
- → English: expertise
- → German: Expertise
- → Italian: expertise
- → Norwegian Bokmål: ekspertise
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: ekspertise
- → Portuguese: expertise
- → Swedish: ekspertis
Further reading
- “expertise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from French expertise.
Noun
expertise f (invariable)
Further reading
- expertise in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French expertise.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ex‧per‧ti‧se
Noun
expertise f (usually uncountable, plural expertises)
References
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French expertise.
Pronunciation
Noun
expertise f (plural expertises)