gain experience

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To gain experience is to learn by doing a thing over and over. Six months on the ward, three summers behind a bar, the mistakes included.

It takes in or of: gain experience in teaching, of dealing with the public. No article and no plural — an experience is a single thing that happened to you, and experiences are anecdotes, so the countable version says something quite different. Get is the everyday swap, and work experience is the fixed compound for the fortnight a school sends you out.

Definitions of gain experience

1phrasegain experienceTo learn by doing something over time.B2
“Volunteers gain experience they can put on a form.”

gain experience is a build-up of skill.

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gain experience

phraseB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To gain experience is to learn by doing a thing over and over. Six months on the ward, three summers behind a bar, the mistakes included.

Definitions of gain experience

1phrasegain experienceTo learn by doing something over time.B2
“Volunteers gain experience they can put on a form.”

gain experience is a build-up of skill.

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