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expert

[n., v. ek-spurt; adj. ek-spurt, ik-spurt]

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noun

a person who has special skill or knowledge in some particular field; specialist; authority: a language expert.

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the highest rating in rifle marksmanship, above that of marksman and sharpshooter.

a person who has achieved such a rating.

adjective

possessing special skill or knowledge; trained by practice; skillful or skilled (often followed by in or at): an expert driver; to be expert at driving a car.

pertaining to, coming from, or characteristic of an expert: expert work; expert advice.

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verb (used with object)

to act as an expert for.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English (adj.) < Latin expertus, past participle of experīrī to try, experience

Related forms

ex·pert·ly, adverb

ex·pert·ness, noun

non·ex·pert, noun, adjective

pro·ex·pert, adjective

un·ex·pert, adjective

Synonyms
1. connoisseur, master. 3. experienced, proficient, dexterous. See skillful.

Antonyms
3. unskillful.

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It had five leading voices, each one an expert in drug addiction and treatment.

Which isn't surprising, given his long and expert contribution to the health-care debate over the past two years.

After all, being a so-called expert is their claim to fame.

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It had five leading voices, each one an expert in drug addiction and treatment.

Which isn't surprising, given his long and expert contribution to the health-care debate over the past two years.

After all, being a so-called expert is their claim to fame.

It used to be that the expert source on what was or wasn't a word was that school-day staple: the dictionary.

Don't experiment with other varieties without expert guidance.

Other than these alternatives though, there is plenty to discover here for strategy players of even expert ability.

Williams asks why a usage expert can point out errors yet not notice them in his or her own writing.

Rather than hiring an ebonics expert to understand the lingo of drug dealers, they'd be better off hiring a former drug dealer.

No one who is not immersed and expert in a field and has become an expert in it is qualified to have a substantive opinion.

She is now a behavioral ecologist, an expert in how animals use sound.

PhD in-hand by time of appointment, and demonstrated accomplishment or promise as a regional expert with a global reach.

Two expert guests are pitched head to head in our online debate.

The expert simply doesn't trust professors to do their jobs, though he would probably never put it so bluntly.

But expert opinion does not guarantee in itself the absence of bias, only the prevalence of the bias of the said expert.

Brenneman, a turnaround expert who is credited with revitalizing.

Expert networks are the matchmakers for the information age.

His keen ability to communicate with and influence pets has made him a much-sought after expert in dog rehabilitation.

Introducing the new board of advisers that serve as expert sources to our magazine.

The world's foremost lion expert reveals the brutal, secret world of the king of beasts.

Style expert reveals her clever storage solutions for tiny spaces.

But one usability expert has published an exhaustive critique of the iPad, taking it to task for.

Reindl, an expert in postsecondary education with the.

Expert speakers will examine the latest trends in innovation, from the.

It takes exceptional ingredients and expert craftsmanship to create, and costs more to acquire.

Health care, climate change and other complex topics demand more expert and public debate.

For those of us consigned to our own realms this summer, six of these expert bakers offer peerless pies to make at home.

Follow these expert tips and you'll be strutting out with more friendship bracelets and plastic harmonicas than you can carry.

Hoover is frequently quoted as an expert about college admissions for articles in regional and campus newspapers.

Yet, some domains can't have experts because the phenomena the expert is supposed to know are inherently and wildly random.

So the zookeeper needs an expert to rescue these hard-to-spot lizards.

Again, by four years of age, children have become expert at working the social arena.

Get expert advice from what to pack to where to play.

Promotional offers of expert advice stoke those fears even as they promise to allay them:.

Quoting an editor is not talking to an expert or someone that is even knowledgable about nuclear power or it's industry.

Takeda, the museum's costume and textile department head, knew immediately what the restoration expert was staring at:.

Dan is an all around math-teaching expert and master video maker.

Wellman, an expert on college costs, and policy makers as well as the general public often lack.

The third group was a control group and did not have a local expert.

Doing science requires using technical terminology to allow you to successfully navigate the expert terrain.

Expert faculty, growing enrollments, accreditation of our new professional program.

That's an irresponsible statement on the part of an expert in neuroscience.

Children that do not understand that the dots and number are not one thing will not likely recover without years of expert help.

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World English Dictionary

expert (ˈɛkspɜːt)

—n
1.	a person who has extensive skill or knowledge in a particular field

—*adj*
2.	skilful or knowledgeable
3.	of, involving, or done by an expert: an expert job

[C14: from Latin expertus known by experience, from experīrī to test; see experience]

'expertly

—*adv*

'expertness

—n

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Word Origin & History

expert

late 14c., from L. expertus, pp. of experiri "to try, test" (see experience). The n. sense of "person wise through experience" existed 15c., reappeared 1825.

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