n.
1.accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
2.the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
3.ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
4.the quality of being prudent and sensible
5.an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom
Idiom of the Day
but for (someone or something)
if it were not for someone or something
The man would have easily got the new job, but for the fact that he was not honest about his previous experience.