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Word of the Day for Sunday, August 9, 2009 métier \met-YAY; MET-yay\, noun: 1. An occupation; a profession. 2. An area in which one excels; an occupation for which one is especially well suited. 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. -- Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Cult of Joyce Maynard", New York Times Magazine, September 6, 1998 In Congress, I really found my métier. . . . I love to legislate. -- Charles Schumer, quoted in "Upbeat Schumer Battles Poor Polls and Turnouts and His Own Image", New York Times, May 16, 1998 He is in the position of a good production engineer suddenly shunted into salesmanship. It is not his métier. -- James R. Mursell, "The Reform of the Schools", The Atlantic, December 1939 Métier is from the French, ultimately from Latin ministerium, "service, ministry, employment," from minister, "a servant, a subordinate." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for métier Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
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