Work and business / A2

ik-SPEERR-ee-uh-ns/ɪkˈspɪəriəns/

Experience is what you learn by doing, or an event that happens to you. Uncountable: she has experience. Countable: a bad experience, many experiences. Experienced is the adjective: an experienced teacher. Experiment is a test in science — a different word.

Meaning

Knowledge or skill from doing something, or something that happens to you.

Examples

• “She has a lot of experience as a teacher.”
• “He has no experience in this job.”
• “Travel is a useful experience.”

Good to know

uncountable skill vs a/an experience (event). Not experiment.

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