expertise
/ˌɛkspɚˈtis/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He spoke of Scotland's hydroelectric projects in Africa, local expertise shared with the world's poor."
- "Two HIV-positive teens, Jennifer Jako and Rebecca Guberman, had decided to make a film out of their own and other teens' experience with HIV, although they had no expertise when they started."
- "Since 1979, we have developed a method for expertising the design of the processes and improving them."
- "Including a plurality of different expertise in the decision-making processes corresponds to expertising the democratic procedures."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der. Proto-Italic *parjō Latin pariō Latin experior Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin expertusder. French expert French -ise French expertisebor. English expertise Borrowed from French expertise. Compare gourmandise.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɛkspɚˈtis/
- British English: /ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz/