knowledge

knowledge: knowledge knowl‧edge [ˈnɒlɪdʒ ǁ ˈnɑː-] noun [uncountable]

facts, skills and understanding gained through learning or experience:

• Given its market knowledge, Price Waterhouse was able to provide a useful insight into each supplier.

knowledge of

• Auditors' knowledge of their client company means they are well-placed to judge the likelihood of company survival.

ˌtacit ˈknowledge

HUMAN RESOURCES the type of knowledge that you gain through personal experience of working in an organization, but that is not written down and is difficult to share:

• Tacit knowledge is hard to verbalize because it cannot be reduced to rules.

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knowledge UK US /ˈnɒlɪdʒ/ noun

► skill in, understanding of, or information about something, which a person gets by experience or study: »acquire/gain/have knowledge
» possess/lack knowledge
»People working in stores need better product knowledge.
»business/scientific/technical knowledge
deny all/any knowledge of sth »The chairman denies all knowledge of any foreign accounts.
»Applicants should have a working knowledge of computer-aided design systems.
»detailed/extensive/basic knowledge
»business/scientific/technical knowledge

● to my knowledge — Cf. to my knowledge

→ See also EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE(Cf. ↑explicit knowledge), IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE(Cf. ↑implicit knowledge), TACIT KNOWLEDGE(Cf. ↑tacit knowledge)

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Apprehension, comprehension, perception, understanding, discernment, judgment / Learning, erudition, scholarship, enlightenment, lore, acquirements, attainments, information / Cognizance, cognition, notice, information

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Knowledge — • Knowledge, being a primitive fact of consciousness, cannot, strictly speaking, be defined; but the direct and spontaneous consciousness of knowing may be made clearer by pointing out its essential and distinctive characteristics Catholic… … Catholic encyclopedia
Knowledge — is defined (Oxford English Dictionary) variously as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total;… … Wikipedia
knowledge — know·ledge n 1 a: awareness or understanding esp. of an act, a fact, or the truth: actual knowledge (1) in this entry b: awareness that a fact or circumstance probably exists; broadly: constructive knowledge in this entry see also … Law dictionary
knowledge — knowledge, science, learning, erudition, scholarship, information, lore are comparable when they mean what is known or can be known, usually by an individual but sometimes by human beings in general. Knowledge applies not only to a body of facts… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Knowledge — Knowl edge, n. [OE. knowlage, knowlege, knowleche, knawleche. The last part is the Icel. suffix leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. l[=a]c, Goth. laiks dance. See {Know}, and cf. {Lake}, v.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
knowledge — ► NOUN 1) information and skills acquired through experience or education. 2) the sum of what is known. 3) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation: he denied all knowledge of the incident. ● come to one s knowledge Cf … English terms dictionary
knowledge — [näl′ij] n. [ME knoweleche, acknowledgment, confession < Late OE cnawlæc < cnawan (see KNOW) + læc < lācan, to play, give, move about] 1. the act, fact, or state of knowing; specif., a) acquaintance or familiarity (with a fact, place,… … English World dictionary
Knowledge — Knowl edge, v. t. To acknowledge. [Obs.] Sinners which knowledge their sins. Tyndale. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
knowledge — knowledge, sociology of … Dictionary of sociology
knowledge — (n.) early 12c., cnawlece acknowledgment of a superior, honor, worship; for first element see KNOW (Cf. know). Second element obscure, perhaps from Scandinavian and cognate with the lock action, process, found in WEDLOCK (Cf. wedlock). Meaning… … Etymology dictionary

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