expertise

See also: Expertise and expertisé

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)

  1. Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby.
    The scientist has expertise in the field of nuclear fusion.
  2. Advice, or opinion, of an expert.

Translations

See also

Verb

expertise (third-person singular simple present expertises, present participle expertising, simple past and past participle expertised)

  1. (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
  • IPA(key): /ˌɛks.pɛrˈtiː.zə/, /ˌɛks.pərˈtiː.zə/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ex‧per‧ti‧se
  • Rhymes: -iːzə

Noun

expertise f (plural expertises or expertisen)

  1. expertise
    Synonyms: deskundigheid, kundigheid
  2. expert investigation

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From expert +‎ -ise.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛk.spɛʁ.tiz/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

expertise f (plural expertises)

  1. (countable) appraisal
  2. (uncountable) expertness

Descendants
  • → Danish: ekspertise
  • → English: expertise
  • → German: Expertise
  • → Italian: expertise
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: ekspertise
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: ekspertise
  • → Portuguese: expertise
  • → Swedish: ekspertis

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French expertise.

Noun

expertise f (invariable)

  1. (art) authentication

Further reading
  • expertise in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French expertise.[1]

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /is.peʁˈt͡ʃi.zi/ [is.pehˈt͡ʃi.zi], /es.peʁˈt͡ʃi.zi/ [es.pehˈt͡ʃi.zi]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /is.peɾˈt͡ʃi.zi/, /es.peɾˈt͡ʃi.zi/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /iʃ.peʁˈt͡ʃi.zi/ [iʃ.peχˈt͡ʃi.zi], /eʃ.peʁˈt͡ʃi.zi/ [eʃ.peχˈt͡ʃi.zi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /es.peɻˈt͡ʃi.ze/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /(i)ʃ.pɨɾˈti.zɨ/

  • Hyphenation: ex‧per‧ti‧se

Noun

expertise f (usually uncountable, plural expertises)

  1. expertise

References
  1. “expertise” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French expertise.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /eɡspeɾˈtis/ [eɣ̞s.peɾˈt̪is]
  • Rhymes: -is

Noun

expertise f (plural expertises)

  1. expertise
    Synonym: pericia
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