metier

/ˈmɛtjər/

Other forms: metiers

If toasting bread is the limit of your culinary skills, then being a chef is probably not your métier. A métier, in other words, is a job to which you are particularly well suited by your skills.

Your métier can also be a particularly outstanding talent or strong point in general. If you're a chef, your divine steak frites might be your métier. If you're a mechanic, your ability to understand transmissions may be your métier. Often used interchangeably with forte, meaning "strong point." As the accent over the "e" in métier implies, it's originally from the French, because the French, darn them, are good at so many things. Particularly steak frites.

Definitions of metier

1. noun

   an occupation for which you are especially well suited
   “in law he found his true metier”

   synonyms: medium

   type of:

   business, job, line, line of work, occupation

   the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
2. noun

   an asset of special worth or utility
   synonyms: forte, long suit, speciality, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit

   types:

   green fingers, green thumb

   a special ability to make plants grow

   type of:

   asset, plus

   a useful or valuable quality