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knowledge work

knowledge work noun: work that depends on the knowledge and thinking skills of the practitioner, such as medicine, programming, design, architecture, accounting, law, etc.

Noun

knowledge work (uncountable)

  1. Work that depends on the knowledge and thinking skills of the practitioner, such as medicine, programming, design, architecture, accounting, law, etc.

Origin of knowledge work

Coined by Peter Drucker in 1959.

Questions about knowledge work

What does knowledge work mean?
Knowledge work means work that depends on the knowledge and thinking skills of the practitioner, such as medicine, programming, design, architecture, accounting, law, etc.
What part of speech is knowledge work?
Knowledge work is a noun.

Words near knowledge work in the dictionary

  1. knowledge management
  2. knowledge map
  3. knowledge maps
  4. knowledge mining
  5. knowledge society
  6. knowledge work
  7. knowledge worker
  8. knowledge workers
  9. knowledge-box
  10. knowledge-boxes
  11. knowledgeability

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