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Word of the Day for Sunday, August 9, 2009métier \met-YAY; MET-yay\, noun: 1. An occupation; a profession. The pairing of Maynard and Salinger -- the writer whose métier is autobiography and the writer who's so private he won't even publish -- was an unlikely one. In Congress, I really found my métier. . . . I love to legislate. He is in the position of a good production engineer suddenly shunted into salesmanship. It is not his métier. Métier is from the French, ultimately from Latin ministerium, "service, ministry, employment," from minister, "a servant, a subordinate." | |||||||||
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