- experience
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun1 knowledge/skill obtained by seeing/doing sthADJECTIVE▪ considerable, extensive, great, long, vast, wide▪ limited, little▪
companies with limited experience in the field
▪ good, invaluable, valuable▪She didn't get paid much but it was all good experience.
▪ relevant▪Both candidates for the presidency were short of relevant experience.
▪ previous, prior▪Do you have any previous experience of this type of work?
▪ direct, first-hand, hands-on, practical, real, real-world▪the importance of hands-on experience as well as academic training
▪ professional, work▪ clinical, teaching▪ field (esp. AmE)▪Students require field experience rather than just observation.
▪ combatVERB + EXPERIENCE▪ have▪ lack▪ gain, get▪ offer, provide▪ bring▪The returning soldiers bring valuable experience to the Army.
▪ broaden▪She wanted to broaden her experience in international affairs.
▪ usePREPOSITION▪ experience of▪She has considerable professional experience of translation.
PHRASES▪ a lack of experience, a wealth of experience▪The new player will bring a wealth of experience to the team.
2 the things that have happened to youADJECTIVE▪ past▪We're in for a difficult couple of weeks, if past experience is anything to go by.
▪ recent▪ historical▪ direct, first-hand, hands-on, lived, personal▪She has brought personal experience to bear on her analyses of business history.
▪ vicarious▪I love reading: I have an insatiable appetite for vicarious experience.
▪ subjective▪Experience is subjective and very hard to measure.
▪ common, shared▪his peers, with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society
▪ common▪It is a matter of common experience that disorder will increase if things are left to themselves.
▪ daily, everyday▪Choose illustrative examples from the children's everyday experience.
▪ human▪There are few areas of human experience that have not been written about.
▪ sensoryVERB + EXPERIENCE▪ have▪ share▪ learn by, learn from▪We all learn from experience.
▪ be based on, draw on▪The book is based on personal experience.
▪In her book, she draws on her first-hand experience of mental illness.
▪ reflect▪These views reflect my own personal experience.
EXPERIENCE + VERB▪ suggest sth, teach (sb) sth▪Experience has taught me that life can be very unfair.
▪ show sth▪Experience shows that this strategy does not always work.
PREPOSITION▪ by experience, from experience▪We know from experience that hot objects are painful to touch.
▪ in sb's experience▪In my experience, very few people really understand the problem.
▪ experience of▪He has direct experience of poverty.
3 event/activity that affects youADJECTIVE▪ enjoyable, exhilarating, good, great, interesting, memorable, pleasant, positive, rewarding, rich, unforgettable, valuable, wonderful▪ bad, harrowing, negative, painful, traumatic, unnerving, unsettling▪I had a bad experience with fireworks once.
▪ hair-raising, nerve-racking▪a hair-raising experience of white-water rafting
▪ emotional▪ humbling, salutary (BrE), sobering▪ personal, subjective▪ collective, common, shared▪The use of drama can motivate students by allowing them to share a common experience.
▪ common▪It is a common experience to feel that an author writes well, without being able to say why.
▪ unique▪ overall, whole▪He found the whole experience traumatic.
▪ real-life▪ past▪ childhood, early, formative▪Early experiences shape the way we deal with crises in later life.
▪ educational, learning▪ sensory▪ listening, viewing▪ user▪The goal is to enhance the user experience on computing devices.
▪ mystical, religious, spiritual, visionary▪ psychic▪ sexual▪his first sexual experience
▪ cultural▪ near-death▪ out-of-bodyVERB + EXPERIENCE▪ enjoy, go through, have, undergo▪I think you will enjoy the experience of taking part in the show.
▪She has been through a very traumatic experience.
▪ come through, get over▪It could take him years to get over this experience.
▪ describe, discuss, recount, relate, report, talk about▪ share▪Does anyone have any experiences—good or bad—that they would like to share with the group?
▪ relive▪Reliving past experiences can release powerful feelings that have been pent up too long.
▪ be based on▪The novel is based on his experiences in the war.
▪ create, offer▪We aim to create an experience the consumer will remember.
▪ enhance▪The sound system greatly enhances the experience of the movie.
PHRASES▪ quite an experience▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}It was quite an experience being involved in running the festival.
verbADVERB▪ actually▪ directly, first-hand, personally▪He hadn't directly experienced the fighting in the city.
▪people who have actually experienced these problems first-hand
▪ vicariously▪It was wonderful to go to the movies and vicariously experience the struggles of others.
▪ subjectively▪ fullyExperience is used with these nouns as the object: ↑abuse, ↑alienation, ↑anguish, ↑anxiety, ↑attack, ↑benefit, ↑block, ↑boom, ↑conversion, ↑crisis, ↑death, ↑decline, ↑decrease, ↑defeat, ↑delay, ↑depression, ↑deprivation, ↑deterioration, ↑diarrhoea, ↑difficulty, ↑dip, ↑disability, ↑disadvantage, ↑disappointment, ↑disaster, ↑discomfort, ↑discrimination, ↑disruption, ↑distress, ↑disturbance, ↑divorce, ↑downturn, ↑drop, ↑earthquake, ↑effect, ↑elation, ↑emotion, ↑episode, ↑erosion, ↑expansion, ↑failure, ↑fatigue, ↑fear, ↑feeling, ↑flash, ↑flavour, ↑fluctuation, ↑frustration, ↑grief, ↑growth, ↑guilt, ↑hallucination, ↑hardship, ↑headache, ↑high, ↑horror, ↑illness, ↑improvement, ↑incident, ↑increase, ↑influx, ↑injury, ↑injustice, ↑intimacy, ↑irritation, ↑isolation, ↑joy, ↑loneliness, ↑love, ↑magic, ↑menopause, ↑migraine, ↑nausea, ↑pain, ↑pang, ↑period, ↑persecution, ↑pleasure, ↑pressure, ↑problem, ↑racism, ↑reaction, ↑recession, ↑recurrence, ↑reduction, ↑relapse, ↑relief, ↑revival, ↑rush, ↑sensation, ↑sense, ↑setback, ↑shift, ↑shortage, ↑sickness, ↑side effect, ↑spasm, ↑stress, ↑strife, ↑success, ↑suffering, ↑surge, ↑symptom, ↑thrill, ↑tragedy, ↑trauma, ↑turmoil, ↑twinge, ↑upheaval, ↑urge, ↑vision, ↑wonder
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
