- expert knowledge or skill in a particular subject, activity or job
- professional/scientific/technical, etc. expertise
- We have the expertise to help you run your business.
- It is difficult to find staff with the level of expertise required for this job.
- expertise in something/in doing something They have considerable expertise in dealing with oil spills.
Extra Examples- An outsider will lack the necessary expertise to run the company.
- Each area of the curriculum should be led by a staff member with appropriate expertise.
- How could he apply his academic expertise to practical matters?
- We need to draw on the professional expertise of a large number of teachers.
- His technical expertise was critical in developing the business.
- I have gained expertise in specialist financial areas.
- The teachers would be available to share expertise and offer advice.
- They met regularly to develop their collective expertise.
- This project builds on the existing expertise of our staff.
- We sometimes have to call on outside expertise.
- areas of special expertise
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- considerable
- extensive
- great
- …
- degree
- level
- have
- lack
- need
- …
- be available
- expertise in
- expertise on
- an area of expertise
- a field of expertise
- a range of expertise
- …
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from French, from expert, from Latin expertus, past participle of experiri ‘try’.Definitions on the go
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