: knowledge of how to do something smoothly and efficiently : expertise
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On the upside, there’s the state’s information businesses — that’s all the computing know-how plus the creative types who make entertainment magic.
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Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
Trust your intelligence, experience and know-how to reach your destination.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
In this guise, the veteran industry expert is putting his know-how behind a new program called Maso, dedicated to fostering the production of European shorts in tandem with the IDM-Film Commission Südtirol.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
Other countries developing the tech, such as Russia, Israel, Iran and Turkey, could also spread the know-how.
—Frank Bajak, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
On the upside, there’s the state’s information businesses – that’s all the computing know-how plus the creative types who make entertainment magic.
—Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
That’s the problem with kids these days: too many things, not enough good old-fashioned, homegrown, cage-free know-how.
—Alexis Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Avery had rolled out his deadly plans with all the guile and strategic know-how that his navy training had taught him.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
The Asian Tigers and China succeeded by combining vast pools of cheap labor with access to international know-how and financing, and buyers that reached from Kalamazoo to Kuala Lumpur.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
Trust your intelligence, experience and know-how to reach your destination.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
In this guise, the veteran industry expert is putting his know-how behind a new program called Maso, dedicated to fostering the production of European shorts in tandem with the IDM-Film Commission Südtirol.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
Other countries developing the tech, such as Russia, Israel, Iran and Turkey, could also spread the know-how.
—Frank Bajak, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2024
On the upside, there’s the state’s information businesses – that’s all the computing know-how plus the creative types who make entertainment magic.
—Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
That’s the problem with kids these days: too many things, not enough good old-fashioned, homegrown, cage-free know-how.
—Alexis Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Avery had rolled out his deadly plans with all the guile and strategic know-how that his navy training had taught him.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
The Asian Tigers and China succeeded by combining vast pools of cheap labor with access to international know-how and financing, and buyers that reached from Kalamazoo to Kuala Lumpur.
—Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Know-how.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/know-how. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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