know-how

Example Sentences

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While options require more technical know-how, they allow for investing in oil with a set amount of money—effectively capping the downside to the price of the option itself, also called the premium.

From Barron's

A serious and secure industrial base requires domestic capacity not only for finished goods, but for all the materials, tooling and process know-how that determine cost, resilience and scalability.

From The Wall Street Journal

According to Pailler, there could have been a transmission of know-how on extracting, cutting and transporting the stones between older Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and incoming Neolithic agriculturists.

From BBC

You can even set it up on routers, gaming consoles and smart TVs, though that requires a bit more technical know-how.

From Salon

Its case: Better to keep Chinese companies in Nvidia’s ecosystem, where their spending and know-how fuels U.S. leadership.

From The Wall Street Journal