Definitions for know-how

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Spelling: [noh-hou]

IPA: /ˈnoʊˌhaʊ/

Know-How is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in know-how (-hknooww).

Definitions for know-how

noun

1. knowledge of how to do something; faculty or skill for a particular activity; expertise:
2. the fact or state of knowing; knowledge.

Idioms

1. in the know, possessing inside, secret, or special information.
2. know the ropes, Informal. to understand or be familiar with the particulars of a subject or business:

verb (used with object)

1. to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty:
2. to have established or fixed in the mind or memory:
3. to be cognizant or aware of:
4. be acquainted with (a thing, place, person, etc.), as by sight, experience, or report:
5. to understand from experience or attainment (usually followed by how before an infinitive):
6. to be able to distinguish, as one from another:
7. Archaic. to have sexual intercourse with.

verb (used without object)

1. to have knowledge or clear and certain perception, as of fact or truth.
2. to be cognizant or aware, as of some fact, circumstance, or occurrence; have information, as about something.

Origin of know-how

1830-40, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase know how

Examples for know-how

We are offering our know-how and our cooperation to the United Nations.

You have the know-how and more general experience, and can do it.

Tax incentives exist abroad, and those with the resources and know-how have long taken advantage of them, well within the law.

Food and relief and American know-how may not be enough for Haiti.

Once again, Apple has all the know-how to enter, and dominate, this market without making an acquisition.

Mebbe—mebbe Sis'll be gettin' married some day, an' I tell ye a little doctorin' know-how is mighty handy in a house.

Here was a huge, powerful organization, with all the equipment and men and know-how they could ever need.

The Iranians now have most of the know-how and most of the radioactive stuff they need to build a bomb.

By phone, by gossip, by hearsay and by know-how he got the stories behind the story—the real horrors that he couldn't broadcast.

This, he said, would be a miracle of American Medical know-how.