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Formally, the word is applied to persons who are publicly accepted in a recognised capacity, such as professional employment, graduation from a course of study, etc., to give critical commentaries in one or any of a number of specific fields of public or private achievement or endeavour.

Such domains most commonly include the arts, performance and public service ( such as catering ) but may extend more widely to pronouncements on moral character, group behaviour, or any activity involving repute in public life, including war, broadcasting, academia, politics, science, etc.

Critical judgments in this sense must always entail some degree of subjectivity and are themselves subject to critical analysis.