Definition of métier in English:

métier

noun ˈmɛtjeɪ

1A profession or occupation.
行业，职业，工作
the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne
那男孩必须开始学习如何做王位继承人。
Example sentencesExamples
- The latter, Minière should know a bit about - he studied film in Brussels for four years before settling on music as his métier.
- I also seem to have a perpetual mild toothache, ever since my new dentist, a Romanian who obviously learned her métier under the Ceausescu regime, attempted to fill a molar as if she were loading a mortar.
- But having been sacked from field command and kicked upstairs to the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Army, he found his true métier as an administrator and reformer.
- In his mercy and kindness he frequently does so, and frequently he gives me the grace to repent of the sins I have committed, but this is not his job, his métier.
- Fortunately for him, his falling-out with Little Miss Drip coincided with the start of a week spent being an apprentice farrier - in effect, trying his chosen métier on for size to see if he actually likes it.
- But, you know, it's also a superficial, ephemeral métier, suitable only for a marginalised freak - although I find it hard to imagine why everyone does not clamour to become a window dresser.
- And it lives in the designs of Issey Miyake, the playful visionary whose métier is making clothes.
- With his mentor gone, Louis XV was finally, at the age of 32, obliged to quit the shadows and assume his métier of king.
- Born in a family that has been into weaving for the last 75 years, Govardhan's métier is telia rumaal, a textile craft that earlier involved vegetable dye.
- Her approach to the métier was unorthodox - she and two female associates ran a brothel co-operative in an apartment on St-Urbain.
- Above all, war is rejuvenating, and journalism is the only métier in which you can remain an eternal adolescent - if you survive.
- Their devotion to their métier, no matter how laborious and tedious it may seem at times, is touching.
Synonyms
occupation, job, day job, work, profession, specialism, business, employment, employ, career, calling, vocation, mission, trade, craft, walk of life, line (of work), field, province, area
North American specialty
1. 1.1 An occupation or activity that one is good at.
  专长
  television is rather more my métier
  我更擅长拍电视。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was only then that her true métier became clear.
  Did Basu want to use stream of consciousness as her literary métier?
  The details were rather confused; as I'm sure you know, linear narrative is not Cordelia's métier.
  Irresponsibility was his métier, and when he tries to get serious he gets boring instead.
  But then, subtlety is not Ganguly's métier; nor does it have much to do with the hostility that he has had to face so often from Indian cricket fans.
  Even during these student days - it is often suggested that a key event was a performance of Verdi's Aida in Florence in 1876 - Puccini had determined that opera was his true métier.
  It is good knockabout stuff, underpinned by necessary news values and bearing the unmistakable stamp of McKenzie, who seems to have found a métier again after a rather desultory time at Sky.
  Lewis found his métier in the new popularity of the film noir.
  The director finds his métier in this parody of radical chic inspired by Germany's notorious Baader-Meinhof gang.
  However, the piano trio is his real métier and as he approaches his 80th year, and in spite of a stroke in 1993, he does not rest on his laurels.
  After serving in minor diplomatic posts, he had settled down to run his ancestral estate until he deputized for the local parliamentary delegate in Berlin, where he discovered his true métier.
  But his natural métier was disappointed romance and unfulfilled yearnings.
  What's more, this is Walter's métier: a greater intellectual construct, more and more powerful people, ever-more complex systems of rationalizations.
  We might have expected her to have excelled at fashion photography - as she did - but her real métier was the battlefield.
  Poster is a distinguished academic and poet but on this evidence the novel is unmistakably his métier.
  Paired articles explore a particular text or question through the perspectives of scholars with differing métiers.
  After four straight flops, he followed a more commercial route, and found that his métier was thrillers.
  His active naval career had been more profitable than distinguished, but he found his métier in the comptrollership, held until 1790 in weekly communication with Pitt and in combination with his parliamentary seat at Rochester.
  He's a sensational actor - I'm desperate to see him do some stage work, but I think that he feels film is his true métier.
  Synonyms
  forte, strong point, strength, long suit, strong suit, speciality, talent, skill, gift, bent
  informal bag, thing, cup of tea
2. 1.2 An outstanding or advantageous characteristic.
  优秀品质；有利的特性
  subtlety is not his métier
  细致不是他的突出特点。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Ambiguity is her metier.
  Doubts are her metier; oblique vantage points are her preferred location from which to survey the human landscape.
  She looks to be in terrific shape, but self-deprecation is her metier.
  He didn't follow conventions, he took risks and created his own, making restlessness his metier.
  Relaxed good-humour is her metier.
  Self-absorption is not his metier.
  Discretion was not her metier.
  He made uncertainty his metier.
  Indeed, what drives virtually every one of his works, whatever their particular métier, is the complexity of their harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary.
  She is transfixed by possibility: Wonder is her metier.

Origin

Late 18th century: French, based on Latin ministerium 'service'.

Definition of métier in US English:

métier

noun

1A trade, profession, or occupation.
行业，职业，工作
those who work honestly at their métier
Example sentencesExamples
- With his mentor gone, Louis XV was finally, at the age of 32, obliged to quit the shadows and assume his métier of king.
- The latter, Minière should know a bit about - he studied film in Brussels for four years before settling on music as his métier.
- But having been sacked from field command and kicked upstairs to the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Army, he found his true métier as an administrator and reformer.
- Her approach to the métier was unorthodox - she and two female associates ran a brothel co-operative in an apartment on St-Urbain.
- Fortunately for him, his falling-out with Little Miss Drip coincided with the start of a week spent being an apprentice farrier - in effect, trying his chosen métier on for size to see if he actually likes it.
- Their devotion to their métier, no matter how laborious and tedious it may seem at times, is touching.
- In his mercy and kindness he frequently does so, and frequently he gives me the grace to repent of the sins I have committed, but this is not his job, his métier.
- And it lives in the designs of Issey Miyake, the playful visionary whose métier is making clothes.
- Above all, war is rejuvenating, and journalism is the only métier in which you can remain an eternal adolescent - if you survive.
- Born in a family that has been into weaving for the last 75 years, Govardhan's métier is telia rumaal, a textile craft that earlier involved vegetable dye.
- I also seem to have a perpetual mild toothache, ever since my new dentist, a Romanian who obviously learned her métier under the Ceausescu regime, attempted to fill a molar as if she were loading a mortar.
- But, you know, it's also a superficial, ephemeral métier, suitable only for a marginalised freak - although I find it hard to imagine why everyone does not clamour to become a window dresser.
Synonyms
occupation, job, day job, work, profession, specialism, business, employment, employ, career, calling, vocation, mission, trade, craft, walk of life, line, line of work, field, province, area
1. 1.1 An occupation or activity that one is good at.
  专长
  she decided that her real métier was grand opera
  Example sentencesExamples
  Lewis found his métier in the new popularity of the film noir.
  The details were rather confused; as I'm sure you know, linear narrative is not Cordelia's métier.
  Poster is a distinguished academic and poet but on this evidence the novel is unmistakably his métier.
  It is good knockabout stuff, underpinned by necessary news values and bearing the unmistakable stamp of McKenzie, who seems to have found a métier again after a rather desultory time at Sky.
  Did Basu want to use stream of consciousness as her literary métier?
  But then, subtlety is not Ganguly's métier; nor does it have much to do with the hostility that he has had to face so often from Indian cricket fans.
  His active naval career had been more profitable than distinguished, but he found his métier in the comptrollership, held until 1790 in weekly communication with Pitt and in combination with his parliamentary seat at Rochester.
  After serving in minor diplomatic posts, he had settled down to run his ancestral estate until he deputized for the local parliamentary delegate in Berlin, where he discovered his true métier.
  Irresponsibility was his métier, and when he tries to get serious he gets boring instead.
  We might have expected her to have excelled at fashion photography - as she did - but her real métier was the battlefield.
  Even during these student days - it is often suggested that a key event was a performance of Verdi's Aida in Florence in 1876 - Puccini had determined that opera was his true métier.
  What's more, this is Walter's métier: a greater intellectual construct, more and more powerful people, ever-more complex systems of rationalizations.
  After four straight flops, he followed a more commercial route, and found that his métier was thrillers.
  It was only then that her true métier became clear.
  He's a sensational actor - I'm desperate to see him do some stage work, but I think that he feels film is his true métier.
  Paired articles explore a particular text or question through the perspectives of scholars with differing métiers.
  But his natural métier was disappointed romance and unfulfilled yearnings.
  The director finds his métier in this parody of radical chic inspired by Germany's notorious Baader-Meinhof gang.
  However, the piano trio is his real métier and as he approaches his 80th year, and in spite of a stroke in 1993, he does not rest on his laurels.
  Synonyms
  forte, strong point, strength, long suit, strong suit, speciality, talent, skill, gift, bent
2. 1.2 An outstanding or advantageous characteristic.
  优秀品质；有利的特性
  subtlety is not his métier
  细致不是他的突出特点。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He made uncertainty his metier.
  Self-absorption is not his metier.
  Doubts are her metier; oblique vantage points are her preferred location from which to survey the human landscape.
  She looks to be in terrific shape, but self-deprecation is her metier.
  Indeed, what drives virtually every one of his works, whatever their particular métier, is the complexity of their harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary.
  Ambiguity is her metier.
  She is transfixed by possibility: Wonder is her metier.
  Discretion was not her metier.
  He didn't follow conventions, he took risks and created his own, making restlessness his metier.
  Relaxed good-humour is her metier.

Origin

Late 18th century: French, based on Latin ministerium ‘service’.

单词	métier
释义	Definition of métier in English: métier noun ˈmɛtjeɪ 1A profession or occupation. 行业，职业，工作 the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne 那男孩必须开始学习如何做王位继承人。 Example sentencesExamples The latter, Minière should know a bit about - he studied film in Brussels for four years before settling on music as his métier. I also seem to have a perpetual mild toothache, ever since my new dentist, a Romanian who obviously learned her métier under the Ceausescu regime, attempted to fill a molar as if she were loading a mortar. But having been sacked from field command and kicked upstairs to the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Army, he found his true métier as an administrator and reformer. In his mercy and kindness he frequently does so, and frequently he gives me the grace to repent of the sins I have committed, but this is not his job, his métier. Fortunately for him, his falling-out with Little Miss Drip coincided with the start of a week spent being an apprentice farrier - in effect, trying his chosen métier on for size to see if he actually likes it. But, you know, it's also a superficial, ephemeral métier, suitable only for a marginalised freak - although I find it hard to imagine why everyone does not clamour to become a window dresser. And it lives in the designs of Issey Miyake, the playful visionary whose métier is making clothes. With his mentor gone, Louis XV was finally, at the age of 32, obliged to quit the shadows and assume his métier of king. Born in a family that has been into weaving for the last 75 years, Govardhan's métier is telia rumaal, a textile craft that earlier involved vegetable dye. Her approach to the métier was unorthodox - she and two female associates ran a brothel co-operative in an apartment on St-Urbain. Above all, war is rejuvenating, and journalism is the only métier in which you can remain an eternal adolescent - if you survive. Their devotion to their métier, no matter how laborious and tedious it may seem at times, is touching. Synonyms occupation, job, day job, work, profession, specialism, business, employment, employ, career, calling, vocation, mission, trade, craft, walk of life, line (of work), field, province, area North American specialty 1.1 An occupation or activity that one is good at. 专长 television is rather more my métier 我更擅长拍电视。 Example sentencesExamples It was only then that her true métier became clear. Did Basu want to use stream of consciousness as her literary métier? The details were rather confused; as I'm sure you know, linear narrative is not Cordelia's métier. Irresponsibility was his métier, and when he tries to get serious he gets boring instead. But then, subtlety is not Ganguly's métier; nor does it have much to do with the hostility that he has had to face so often from Indian cricket fans. Even during these student days - it is often suggested that a key event was a performance of Verdi's Aida in Florence in 1876 - Puccini had determined that opera was his true métier. It is good knockabout stuff, underpinned by necessary news values and bearing the unmistakable stamp of McKenzie, who seems to have found a métier again after a rather desultory time at Sky. Lewis found his métier in the new popularity of the film noir. The director finds his métier in this parody of radical chic inspired by Germany's notorious Baader-Meinhof gang. However, the piano trio is his real métier and as he approaches his 80th year, and in spite of a stroke in 1993, he does not rest on his laurels. After serving in minor diplomatic posts, he had settled down to run his ancestral estate until he deputized for the local parliamentary delegate in Berlin, where he discovered his true métier. But his natural métier was disappointed romance and unfulfilled yearnings. What's more, this is Walter's métier: a greater intellectual construct, more and more powerful people, ever-more complex systems of rationalizations. We might have expected her to have excelled at fashion photography - as she did - but her real métier was the battlefield. Poster is a distinguished academic and poet but on this evidence the novel is unmistakably his métier. Paired articles explore a particular text or question through the perspectives of scholars with differing métiers. After four straight flops, he followed a more commercial route, and found that his métier was thrillers. His active naval career had been more profitable than distinguished, but he found his métier in the comptrollership, held until 1790 in weekly communication with Pitt and in combination with his parliamentary seat at Rochester. He's a sensational actor - I'm desperate to see him do some stage work, but I think that he feels film is his true métier. Synonyms forte, strong point, strength, long suit, strong suit, speciality, talent, skill, gift, bent informal bag, thing, cup of tea 1.2 An outstanding or advantageous characteristic. 优秀品质；有利的特性 subtlety is not his métier 细致不是他的突出特点。 Example sentencesExamples Ambiguity is her metier. Doubts are her metier; oblique vantage points are her preferred location from which to survey the human landscape. She looks to be in terrific shape, but self-deprecation is her metier. He didn't follow conventions, he took risks and created his own, making restlessness his metier. Relaxed good-humour is her metier. Self-absorption is not his metier. Discretion was not her metier. He made uncertainty his metier. Indeed, what drives virtually every one of his works, whatever their particular métier, is the complexity of their harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary. She is transfixed by possibility: Wonder is her metier. Origin Late 18th century: French, based on Latin ministerium 'service'. Definition of métier in US English: métier noun 1A trade, profession, or occupation. 行业，职业，工作 those who work honestly at their métier Example sentencesExamples With his mentor gone, Louis XV was finally, at the age of 32, obliged to quit the shadows and assume his métier of king. The latter, Minière should know a bit about - he studied film in Brussels for four years before settling on music as his métier. But having been sacked from field command and kicked upstairs to the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Army, he found his true métier as an administrator and reformer. Her approach to the métier was unorthodox - she and two female associates ran a brothel co-operative in an apartment on St-Urbain. Fortunately for him, his falling-out with Little Miss Drip coincided with the start of a week spent being an apprentice farrier - in effect, trying his chosen métier on for size to see if he actually likes it. Their devotion to their métier, no matter how laborious and tedious it may seem at times, is touching. In his mercy and kindness he frequently does so, and frequently he gives me the grace to repent of the sins I have committed, but this is not his job, his métier. And it lives in the designs of Issey Miyake, the playful visionary whose métier is making clothes. Above all, war is rejuvenating, and journalism is the only métier in which you can remain an eternal adolescent - if you survive. Born in a family that has been into weaving for the last 75 years, Govardhan's métier is telia rumaal, a textile craft that earlier involved vegetable dye. I also seem to have a perpetual mild toothache, ever since my new dentist, a Romanian who obviously learned her métier under the Ceausescu regime, attempted to fill a molar as if she were loading a mortar. But, you know, it's also a superficial, ephemeral métier, suitable only for a marginalised freak - although I find it hard to imagine why everyone does not clamour to become a window dresser. Synonyms occupation, job, day job, work, profession, specialism, business, employment, employ, career, calling, vocation, mission, trade, craft, walk of life, line, line of work, field, province, area 1.1 An occupation or activity that one is good at. 专长 she decided that her real métier was grand opera Example sentencesExamples Lewis found his métier in the new popularity of the film noir. The details were rather confused; as I'm sure you know, linear narrative is not Cordelia's métier. Poster is a distinguished academic and poet but on this evidence the novel is unmistakably his métier. It is good knockabout stuff, underpinned by necessary news values and bearing the unmistakable stamp of McKenzie, who seems to have found a métier again after a rather desultory time at Sky. Did Basu want to use stream of consciousness as her literary métier? But then, subtlety is not Ganguly's métier; nor does it have much to do with the hostility that he has had to face so often from Indian cricket fans. His active naval career had been more profitable than distinguished, but he found his métier in the comptrollership, held until 1790 in weekly communication with Pitt and in combination with his parliamentary seat at Rochester. After serving in minor diplomatic posts, he had settled down to run his ancestral estate until he deputized for the local parliamentary delegate in Berlin, where he discovered his true métier. Irresponsibility was his métier, and when he tries to get serious he gets boring instead. We might have expected her to have excelled at fashion photography - as she did - but her real métier was the battlefield. Even during these student days - it is often suggested that a key event was a performance of Verdi's Aida in Florence in 1876 - Puccini had determined that opera was his true métier. What's more, this is Walter's métier: a greater intellectual construct, more and more powerful people, ever-more complex systems of rationalizations. After four straight flops, he followed a more commercial route, and found that his métier was thrillers. It was only then that her true métier became clear. He's a sensational actor - I'm desperate to see him do some stage work, but I think that he feels film is his true métier. Paired articles explore a particular text or question through the perspectives of scholars with differing métiers. But his natural métier was disappointed romance and unfulfilled yearnings. The director finds his métier in this parody of radical chic inspired by Germany's notorious Baader-Meinhof gang. However, the piano trio is his real métier and as he approaches his 80th year, and in spite of a stroke in 1993, he does not rest on his laurels. Synonyms forte, strong point, strength, long suit, strong suit, speciality, talent, skill, gift, bent 1.2 An outstanding or advantageous characteristic. 优秀品质；有利的特性 subtlety is not his métier 细致不是他的突出特点。 Example sentencesExamples He made uncertainty his metier. Self-absorption is not his metier. Doubts are her metier; oblique vantage points are her preferred location from which to survey the human landscape. She looks to be in terrific shape, but self-deprecation is her metier. Indeed, what drives virtually every one of his works, whatever their particular métier, is the complexity of their harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary. Ambiguity is her metier. She is transfixed by possibility: Wonder is her metier. Discretion was not her metier. He didn't follow conventions, he took risks and created his own, making restlessness his metier. Relaxed good-humour is her metier. Origin Late 18th century: French, based on Latin ministerium ‘service’.
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