talent-spotting

English

Noun

talent-spotting (uncountable)

1. The work of finding people who are talented in a particular field.
   • 1962 February, “No Talent on the Railways?”, in Modern Railways, page 74:

     Dr. Beeching has as yet been little seen in the Regions, except for his trip to Scotland; if he has done any Regional talent-spotting so far, very little of it can have been at first hand.

References

• “talent-spotting” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “talent-spotting”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.