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‖ Fach, fach|fɑːx|
[Ger., compartment, partition, division, shelf, fig. circumscribed branch of knowledge.]
A line of work or business, a department of activity; (one's) métier. Also in Comb., ‘professional’.
1842J. S. Mill Let. Nov. (1910) I. 121 The thing is not in my fach. 1887W. James Let. 6 Feb. (1920) I. 263 Wundt..isn't a genius, he is a professor—a being whose duty is to know everything, and have his own opinion about everything, connected with his Fach. 1905Ibid. 30 Apr. II. 227 These men..are none of them Fach-philosophers, and few of them teachers at all. 1920G. Santayana Char. & Opin. U.S. v. 143 Very professional in tone and conscious of his Fach. 1923Contemp. Rev. June 757 The Eldorado of story-tellers whose Fach is the portrayal of luxurious vice. |