(a.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.
(n.) A sworn appraiser.
(v. t.) To experience.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) The psychiatric experts classified 11 of the perpetrators as "normal," 3 as abnormal, and 2 as psychotic.
(3) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(4) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
(5) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
(6) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(7) The risks are determined, mainly by expert committees, from the steadily growing information on exposed human populations, especially the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan in 1945.
(8) This paper describes a computer-based system that would allow doctors, patients, nurses, researchers and experts to participate in medical care in ways that will enhance the usefulness of the system, and will allow the system to grow, adapt and improve as a function of this participation.
(9) The program can produce solutions identical to those derived by a model-based expert system for the same domain, but with an increase of two orders of magnitude in efficiency.
(10) A coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas – which includes minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers – say their experts have estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking one of seven acceptable forms of ID.
(11) He is likely to propose increased funding of plant disease experts, the stepping up of surveillance at ports of entry and a Europe-wide "plant passport" system to trace the origins of all plants coming into Britain.
(12) Experts on the red web share their views Read more Earlier this year student Ruslan Starostin posted an image poking fun at Putin on VKontakte.
(13) Rules of the relations between characteristics of chemical structure and the assay result are extracted as parameters for rules by experts on the rearranged data set.
(14) The information compiled in the computers as databases together with its capability to handle complex statistical analysis also enables dermatologists and computer scientists to develop expert systems to assist the dermatologist in the diagnosis and prognostication of diseases and to predict disease trends.
(15) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(16) Masutha said the parole board had made a mistake when they approved Pistorius for early release, but his intervention has been widely criticised by legal experts.
(17) He looks set to become a stronger leader than his cautious predecessor, Hu Jintao, but he is no radical reformer, experts say.
(18) With her expert legal aid and the help of her lawyers, I was released along with the 300 others who had been rounded up.
(19) Theresa May to visit India in signal of trading priorities post-Brexit Read more Cable said India had been keen to expand “ Mode 4 ” market access: the ability to bring in staff – Indian IT experts, for example – as part of trading in services.
(20) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
Journeyman
Definition:
(n.) Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has mastered a handicraft or trade; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman.
Example Sentences:
(1) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
(2) The interest patterns of air traffic controllers were surveyed for the purposes of a) determining the interests of journeyman controllers, b) determining the relationships of controller interests to those of other occupational groups, c) devising an interest scale for air traffic work, and d) developing a measure for guidance for selection of air traffic specialtites (Terminal, En Route, Flight Service).
(3) In his final fight, against the journeyman boxer Kevin McBride, he was a pitiful figure - slumped in a corner, legs splayed, unable or unwilling to stand himself up.
(4) No problem, journeyman Edward Mujica did just fine.
(5) The decree included Mikan's requirements and the introduction of tests for pharmacists' apprentices (tirones) prior to the journeyman's examination and compulsory registration of employed pharmacists (subjecti) at the Faculty of Medicine.
(6) I did, though, have my suspicions that the perpetrator of this vile assault was Dolge Orlick, Joe's journeyman apprentice.
(7) There is a lack of creativity, though, and while Norwich City’s Kyle Lafferty scored seven goals in qualifying, it is difficult to imagine the journeyman forward will prosper against top defences.
(8) McCown is a 35-year-old journeyman quarterback who couldn’t even find work in 2010.
(9) Then she met Simon Walton, a "journeyman" footballer who has had spells at nine different clubs in six years, in a branch of Nando's, and they went on a date.
(10) Simon Francis, a journeyman Football League right-back turned efficient top-flight centre-half, was targeted from the outset, exposed early on and eclipsed long before the end.
(11) The breadth of Patten's career has been extraordinary: that he failed to scale the greatest political heights leaves his detractors free rein to deliver a verdict of journeyman rather than Everyman.
(12) Between the ropes, and stalked by a determined African journeyman, Saunders's breathing falls hard and fast as he prepares for his professional debut in Birmingham on Saturday night.
(13) In one way, he seems like a very capable journeyman: he clearly has always had a perfectionist streak, but it’s hard to say the dramatic material he picks is particularly distinctive, compared to Scorsese, Spielberg, or even James Cameron.
(14) Sacha Baron Cohen has signed up a welter of talent to his new comedy film Grimsby, including comedian Johnny Vegas, dramatic journeyman Ian McShane, Homeland star David Harewood, and the Oscar-nominated Gabourey Sidibe.
(15) But the stand-out figure, reflecting the generally journeyman squad which over-performed so consistently to win the title, is the wage bill: £80m, lower than 14 other clubs who could normally expect to finish above them.
(16) This is a sensible way to sell a match-up against an anonymous journeyman.
(17) The goal thumped in from Leighton Baines's corner capped a remarkable rise for a player who had been released by Liverpool as a schoolboy and, via a part-time job working in a beetroot processing plant, gone on to forge a career as a journeyman striker in the lower divisions before rising up the leagues as a Saint.
(18) Then, a torrid three-minute spell midway through the first half saw the home side surrender two goals, with poor defending gifting both goals to the journeyman striker Quincy Amarikwa.
(19) Encouragingly for Phelan, Hull at times manoeuvred the ball every bit as adroitly as Arsenal , with Clucas, not so long ago a lower division journeyman, appearing anything but out of place.
(20) If that smacks of a journeyman's career the impression is contradicted by a record of about a goal to every two games in Germany, latterly in the Bundesliga following Koln's promotion two years ago.