invaluable experience
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- noun
- /ɪnˈvæljəbl ɪkˈspɪərəns/
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experiencia invaluable
- The internship provided him with invaluable experience that helped him secure a full-time job after graduation.
Now even though that job didn't last very long, it was that job that taught me the invaluable experience of learning what I don't want.
- Now even though that job didn't last very long, it was that job that taught me the invaluable experience of learning what I don't want.
Examples
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The Senior First Aid Course was a successful first-time endeavor and an invaluable experience.
Academic text (1995) -
Even teams that are unable to come away with a prototype by the end of the weekend tend to leave with a network of entrepreneurs and mentors, as well as an invaluable experience that simply cannot be duplicated in a classroom.
Blog text (26) -
Their years together had been a time of invaluable experience.
Fiction book (1990) -
A PhD student with a heart of gold, an amazing career ahead of her, and invaluable experience working with students.
Blog text (28) -
The dean shared that he had initially been skeptical of this new challenge for the university, but it had been an invaluable experience.
Academic text (2013) -
An internship with a good design studio or at an in-house department can offer invaluable experience that you will draw on throughout your design career.
Blog text (18) -
"A month of diving every year for six years gave the team invaluable experience in marine archaeology and exposed them to the challenges of deep, cold dives.
Academic text (2005) -
Crevoiserat and Zrinyi gained invaluable experience over the summer participating in the World Junior Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
Blog text (12) -
Retired Police Lieutenant (Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, Jacksonville, FL), former Animal Control Division Manager and professional dog trainer James W. Crosby has invaluable experience and extensive insight to bring to the problem of dog attacks and dangerous dog issues.
Blog text (33) -
At the outbreak of the war in September 1939, he was posted to a military ambulance unit, and Marianne had to supply the missing income, replacing enlisted general practitioners in two provincial towns west of Paris—an invaluable experience for the near future.
Academic text (2006)
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: the adjective 'invaluable' (= extremely useful/immeasurable worth) simply modifies 'experience' (practical knowledge), yielding the straightforward meaning 'extremely useful experience'. There is no idiomatic shift or metaphorical extension, and the adjective+noun pattern is a regular, cross-linguistically common construction, so a learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
The phrase invaluable experience paints a simple picture: a lesson or skill so useful you cannot put a price on it. Here, invaluable means 'too valuable to be measured' and experience is what you learn by doing, so the phrase means very useful knowledge that money cannot buy.