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Definition of Expert

Expert

  1. Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.
  2. An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.
  3. A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.
  4. A sworn appraiser.
  5. To experience.

Expert Quotations

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Bohr

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono
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Expert Translations

expert in Afrikaans is ervare
expert in Dutch is deskundig
expert in Finnish is kokenut
expert in German is Experte, erfahren, Experte
expert in Latin is peritus, gnarus, professor
expert in Norwegian is sakkyndig, ekspert, fagmann
expert in Portuguese is perito
expert in Spanish is amaestrado, experto, acertado
expert in Swedish is expert, specialist

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