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skilled worker — ➔ worker … Financial and business terms
Skilled worker — A skilled worker is any worker who has some special skill, knowledge, or (usually acquired) ability in his work. A skilled worker may have attended a college, university or technical school. Or, a skilled worker may have learned his skills on the … Wikipedia
skilled worker — noun a worker who has acquired special skills (Freq. 5) • Syn: ↑trained worker, ↑skilled workman • Hypernyms: ↑worker • Hyponyms: ↑aquanaut, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
worker — work‧er [ˈwɜːkə ǁ ˈwɜːrkər] noun [countable] HUMAN RESOURCES one of the people who work for an organization or business, and are below the level of manager: • There are new health and safety regulations for factory workers. • Many office workers… … Financial and business terms
skilled — [ skıld ] adjective ** 1. ) having the ability and experience to do something well: a skilled craftsman Skilled negotiators ask questions and stick to the facts. skilled worker: The best performing companies had a higher proportion of skilled… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
skilled workman — noun a worker who has acquired special skills • Syn: ↑skilled worker, ↑trained worker • Hypernyms: ↑worker • Hyponyms: ↑aquanaut, ↑oceanaut, ↑armorer, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
skilled */*/ — UK [skɪld] / US adjective 1) having the ability and experience to do something well a skilled craftsman Skilled negotiators ask questions and stick to the facts. skilled worker: The best performing companies had a higher proportion of skilled… … English dictionary
worker — worker, workman, workingman, laborer, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, artisan, hand, operative, roustabout can all mean one who earns his living by labor, especially by manual labor. Worker, the most comprehensive and least specific of these … New Dictionary of Synonyms
worker — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ good, hard, willing ▪ productive ▪ fast, quick ▪ methodical, steady … Collocations dictionary
worker — n. 1) to hire, take on a worker 2) to retrain; train workers 3) to organize, unionize workers 4) to dismiss, fire, sack (colloq.) a worker; to make a worker redundant (as by eliminating her/his job) (BE) 5) an efficient, hard, indefatigable;… … Combinatory dictionary