métier

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an occupation or field of work for which a person is particularly well suited

   Investigative reporting became her métier.

2. 2
   noun

   a person's special strength, skill, or area of expertise

   Dry comedy was the actor's métier.

Borrowed from French métier, 'trade, occupation, skill,' from Old French mestier, ultimately from Latin ministerium, 'service, office.' English retained both the occupational sense and the figurative idea of one's special field or forte.

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