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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expert
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer expert
▪ You don’t need to be a computer expert to use the programme.
a handwriting expert (=someone who studies people's handwriting )
▪ A handwriting expert has confirmed that the letter was almost certainly written by Bateman.
an expert witness (=someone who has special knowledge, for example of medicine, and who talks about it in court)
▪ The jury had to choose between the conflicting testimonies of expert witnesses.
bomb disposal experts/team/squad/unit
▪ The device, which contained 400lbs of explosive, was made safe by army bomb disposal experts.
cast a critical/expert etc eye
▪ Tonight, Tim Goodman casts a cynical eye on TV ads.
confound the critics/pundits/experts etc
▪ United’s new striker confounded the critics with his third goal in as many games.
expert help
▪ If the issues are complex, expert help can be sought from the adoption agency.
expert system
expert witness
▪ He appeared as an expert witness before several government inquiries.
industry experts (=people who know a lot about a particular industry)
▪ Industry experts expect house prices to rise.
professional/expert/specialist advice
▪ It’s advisable to get professional advice before starting any building work.
resident expert
▪ He’s our resident expert on computer games.
specialist/expert knowledge
▪ Making profitable investments requires specialist knowledge.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
financial
▪ Solowka is the financial expert, keeping a watch on the merchandise, wages and general tour costs.
independent
▪ Several children died in the last six weeks alone, one independent traffic expert said.
medical
Medical opinions Neither you nor your employer is likely to be a medical expert.
▪ The solicitor should look at the notes, as well as the medical expert, and keep copies on file.
▪ For middle-class parents at least, however, a new power is taking his place: the equally authoritarian medical expert.
▪ It is vital that these documents should be perused by any medical expert as well as you.
▪ The analogy is drawn between research assessment and the restriction of use of medical expert systems to physicians.
real
▪ His professional reputation as a respected real estate expert also has been tarnished, the suit alleges.
▪ He was hired for these qualities and also because his father-in-law is a real estate expert and a close friend.
resident
▪ Today Al is the resident school expert on the issue.
■ NOUN
computer
▪ The highest award was £307,781 to a computer expert who injured his back helping a store detective stop a suspected shoplifter.
▪ The answer is that it can not, so the computer expert within a large organisation is an endangered species.
▪ In future the computer expert will be the outsider who works for the manufacturer or as an independent adviser.
▪ However, a computer expert in California named Walt Woltosz heard of my plight.
■ VERB
ask
▪ You will be able to ask whichever expert is available how you can go about getting rid of your cellulite.
become
▪ He visited breeders in their gin palaces and became a considerable expert on the birds.
▪ It is almost essential that the proposal writer become a minor expert in the area of concern.
▪ He'd had more than enough practice to become an expert.
▪ As mentioned earlier the writer must become an expert in his area of study.
▪ Builders became expert in providing plastic forms in brick.
▪ Stanleywho becomes an instant expert in any subject that concerns him-had already devoured several libraries of science fact and science fiction.
▪ These days everyone is becoming an expert in the nutritional value of different foods and the importance of vitamins and trace elements.
▪ Their exuberant acceptance of your ideas indicated that you have become an expert in all aspects of their demanding business.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be something of a gardener/an expert etc
▪ Alfred Walter is something of an expert on Viennese music particularly that of the Johann Strauss era.
▪ In his own way he is something of an expert on the private lives of actresses.
▪ Richard Holmes was something of an expert at the game, but he ended up as a down-and-out by the end.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A draft of the document was reviewed by experts on hospital infection control.
▪ an expert in French history
▪ Legal experts are saying that the man's conviction was unlawful.
▪ The team of experts includes psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ D, a leading drug prevention expert who worked on the report.
▪ He'd had more than enough practice to become an expert.
▪ I am an expert among experts.
▪ Send the expert all the available evidence.
▪ The firm had to close while an expert sorted out the mess, the Old Bailey heard.
▪ These days everyone is becoming an expert in the nutritional value of different foods and the importance of vitamins and trace elements.
▪ What one expert sees as the organisational goals are different from the views of another expert.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
advice
▪ Again expert advice is required in these circumstances.
▪ Buffalo needed expert advice and specific strategies to shape the district's future, he said.
▪ It will normally be necessary to seek expert advice on the realisable values of all the major assets.
▪ We are looking forward to expert advice in your column before we do ourselves irreversible brain damage.
▪ Rolle, however, did not have the benefit of such expert advice.
▪ If in doubt, take expert advice on your rights and liabilities.
▪ The more lethargic, weak and ill the infant, the greater is the urgency and need for expert advice.
▪ Your Counsel, with his expert advice, has not been able to run a fine-toothed comb over them.
eye
▪ Perhaps only expert eyes could have spotted the correlation between this spirited image and the refined clothing which passed in front.
guidance
▪ As a new father I am only too aware of the importance of expert guidance through the first months of parenthood.
▪ While this may be the case, the issue of financial planning is one that requires careful thought and expert guidance.
▪ We offer free and expert guidance on all the finance aspects of home purchase.
▪ Such dramatic changes in the law make the need for expert guidance in matters of corporate and personal insolvency essential.
help
▪ Take your time choosing your ring and enjoy the benefit of receiving expert help and advice from the Beaverbrooks professionally trained staff.
▪ You could do it yourself or get expert help.
▪ Theatre administrator Patricia McBride is calling on expert help to get the boy's drawl exactly right.
▪ Do not dress or interfere with severe burns until expert help is available but do treat the shock.
▪ If the problem is a faulty valve, again call in expert help.
▪ Do not move the person until expert help is available.
knowledge
▪ There are numerous Carboniferous crinoids not unlike this one, which require expert knowledge in their discrimination.
▪ Although an expert knowledge of the subject being revised is obviously an advantage, it is not essential.
▪ I have no pretensions to the type of expert knowledge of semiotics that students of linguistics will have.
▪ Medical involvement was mainly in the background, but it included expert knowledge of abnormal neuromuscular function and its alleviation.
▪ Pupils are empty vessels waiting to be filled from the teacher's stock of expert knowledge.
▪ Only from Prague did a request come for his expert knowledge.
▪ For the same reason, I fear that an accountant's expert knowledge of tax havens may once again be a saleable commodity.
▪ He initially fed his program with examples of expert knowledge about soybean diseases.
opinion
▪ They are drafted by permanent government officials who are concerned to seek out expert opinion on the issues in question.
▪ But now it sits scowling outside the conversation of humankind, offering expert opinion with a sneer.
▪ Or was he entitled to act solely on his own expert opinion?
▪ Process assessments compare the documented care with what is accepted as optimum practice based on current scientific nutrition knowledge and expert opinion.
▪ Which is what Mr Walker said last week, against the flood of expert opinion on what his vote would mean.
▪ Here is where the most important split of all divides expert opinion.
▪ These commissions have drawn on expert opinion from the social science community, and found evidence for both sides.
▪ For it to be expert opinion is invaluable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
expert advice
▪ an expert watchmaker
▪ My grandmother was an expert dressmaker.
▪ Politicians are usually expert at turning a crisis to their advantage.
▪ Students learn to cook French food with the help of expert chefs.
▪ Tennis coaches will be available to provide expert advice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the applications of expert determination have evolved through commercial practice.
▪ Buchanan, armed with little more than expert oratory, can probably be sidelined by the Republicans.
▪ Critical reading of galley proofs by outside expert consultants.
▪ Embedded Neural Networks A neural network embedded in an expert system has many advantages.
▪ The nursery slope can be terrifying to the person on skis for the first time, and yet boring to the expert.
▪ The person using an expert system to advise a client will be potentially liable under the laws of contract and negligence.
▪ Your Counsel, with his expert advice, has not been able to run a fine-toothed comb over them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expert

Expert \Ex"pert\, n.

  1. 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.

  2. (Law)

    1. A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

      Note: Such specialists may be witnesses in matters as to which ordinary observers could not without such aid form just conclusions, and are liable for negligence in case they injure another from want of proper qualifications or proper care in the exercise of their specialty.

    2. A sworn appraiser.

Expert

Expert \Ex*pert"\, v. t. To experience. [Obs.]

Die would we daily, once it to expert.
--Spencer.

Expert

Expert \Ex*pert"\ ([e^]ks*p[~e]rt"), a. [F. expert, L. expertus, p. p. of experiri to try. See Experience.] 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.

A valiant and most expert gentleman.
--Shak.

What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert?
--Tennyson.

Syn: Adroit; dexterous; clever; ready; prompt.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
expert

late 14c., "having had experience; skillful," from Old French expert, espert "experienced, practiced, skilled" and directly from Latin expertus (contracted from *experitus), "tried, proved, known by experience," past participle of experiri "to try, test" (see experience). The adjective tends to be accented on the second syllable, the noun on the first. Related: Expertly; expertness.

expert

early 15c., "person wise through experience," from expert (adj.). The word reappeared 1825 in the legal sense, "person who, by virtue of special acquired knowledge or experience on a subject, presumably not within the knowledge of men generally, may testify in a court of justice to matters of opinion thereon, as distinguished from ordinary witnesses, who can in general testify only to facts" [Century Dictionary].

Wiktionary
expert

a. 1 extraordinary capable or knowledgeable. 2 Characteristic of an expert. n. A person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject.

WordNet
expert

adj. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching" [syn: adept, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful]

expert

n. a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully

Wikipedia
Expert

An expert is somebody who obtains results that are superior to those obtained by the majority of the population". Alternatively, an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by peers or the public in a specific well-distinguished domain. An expert, more generally, is a person with extensive knowledge or ability based on research, experience, or occupation and in a particular area of study. Experts are called in for advice on their respective subject, but they do not always agree on the particulars of a field of study. An expert can be believed, by virtue of credential, training, education, profession, publication or experience, to have special knowledge of a subject beyond that of the average person, sufficient that others may officially (and legally) rely upon the individual's opinion. Historically, an expert was referred to as a sage ( Sophos). The individual was usually a profound thinker distinguished for wisdom and sound judgment.

Experts have a prolonged or intense experience through practice and education in a particular field. In specific fields, the definition of expert is well established by consensus and therefore it is not always necessary for individuals to have a professional or academic qualification for them to be accepted as an expert. In this respect, a shepherd with 50 years of experience tending flocks would be widely recognized as having complete expertise in the use and training of sheep dogs and the care of sheep. Another example from computer science is that an expert system may be taught by a human and thereafter considered an expert, often outperforming human beings at particular tasks. In law, an expert witness must be recognized by argument and authority.

Research in this area attempts to understand the relation between expert knowledge, skills and personal characteristics and exceptional performance. Some researchers have investigated the cognitive structures and processes of experts. The fundamental aim of this research is to describe what it is that experts know and how they use their knowledge to achieve performance that most people assume requires extreme or extraordinary ability. Studies have investigated the factors that enable experts to be fast and accurate.

Expert (company)

Expert International GmbH is a Swiss consumer electronics retail chain headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Expert (disambiguation)

An expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill.

Expert may also refer to:

  • Expert (company), a Swiss consumer electronics retail chain
  • Expert (magazine), Russia's leading business weekly magazine
  • Gradiente Expert, the second and last MSX home computer launched in the Brazilian market
  • Peugeot Expert, model of light commercial vehicle produced by PSA Peugeot Citroën since 1995
  • EXPERT - European eXPErimental Re-entry Testbed, European Space Agency research programme.
Expert (magazine)

Expert or Ekspert magazine ( Russian: Журнал "Эксперт") is a Russian weekly business magazine, established in 1995 in Moscow by a group of editors and journalists who departed from Kommersant publishing house. It covers economics and finance, Russian business, international business, politics, science and technology, culture and arts. It also features a books and market indicators sections. Currently it is part of Expert Group, a media, conference and research business based in Moscow. Besides Expert, it also includes Russkiy Reporter (a current affairs weekly) and Expert TV, a business-oriented TV channel.

Usage examples of "expert".

Als Marc of Sofia de zeven of acht dagen die het zou kosten om hen te bereiken overleefden, zouden ze het waarschijnlijk ook nog wel een dag langer volhouden zonder behandeling door een expert.

As the second wave came in, around 0857, amphtracs of the first were beginning to retract, passing through the second, third and fourth waves with expert helmsmanship.

Experts believe that the average lethal dose for inhalational anthrax is ten thousand spores, although in view of the recent postal attacks, we now believe that a smaller number can be fatal, especially for the elderly and those with a weakened immune system.

But experts believe that illness may occur as long as sixty days after exposure to anthrax spores, because observations have shown that the spores can take that long to change to active bacteria.

Most experts believe that only a person, a group, or a country with access to advanced biotechnology would be capable of manufacturing and delivering a lethal anthrax aerosol.

For more than three decades, scientific, military, and health experts have tried to analyze the consequences of a large-scale anthrax attack.

Only trace amounts of anthrax, much less than experts believed would be needed to harm people, were found on the other letters.

And although he may give his answer at once, and at once proceed to issue his apostils if he is very expert and experienced, yet it is better to act with caution, and fix a term of ten or twenty or twenty-five days, reserving to himself the right to prorogue the hearing of the appeal up to the legal limit of time.

It has not been our purpose to literally explain, in detail, the methods of applying vibratory motion in the treatment of paralysis for popular experiment, since to be successful one should become an expert, not only in this mechanical treatment, but also in the diagnosis of the various forms of paralysis, as well as familiar with their causes, pathology, and remedial requirements.

Watchdog has already hired someone to appraise the chops a local expert, Carliss Swilley.

Vestman at Trianon Studios for his expert audio recordings of my whole seminar and Dave Morton and the staff of Cassette Express for their continued appreciation of this material and their quality service.

Thecodonts are a diverse assemblage and their interrelationships are not fully known and agreed upon by experts, but, as a whole, they show the initiation of archosaurian tendencies.

FBI ballistics expert Robert Frazier gave testimony about these tests on May 13, 1964.

The expert opinion was more explicit at the next meeting, held the day of the Shaw-Gregory testimony and attended by those doctors, the wound ballistics experts, Specter, McCloy, and others.

Duncan MacPherson, a respected ballistics expert and consultant to the Los Angeles Police Department.