semiskilled

Examples

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• A progressively greater proportion of both groups falls into the semiskilled category as time goes by.

  Academic text (2003)

• Unaided by the government until the early 1980s, the industry still expanded, in part due to the supply of semiskilled and highly adaptable workers.

  Academic text (1992)

• These employees were from a wide range of occupational groups, from city mayors to semiskilled cleaners; the largest groups were nurses and teachers.

  Academic text (2012)

• Slightly more nonwhites than expected, and more than 75% of the children come from homes whose occupational status is classified as skilled, semiskilled, or unskilled.

  Academic text (1990)

• Vocational-training school graduates are given skilled-worker and semiskilled-worker certificates.

  Academic text (1995)

• The machinery industry, with a greater dependence on technicians and semiskilled workers than most industries, has had a higher average wage level than other industrial sectors.

  Academic text (1992)

• An increasing number of young men and women are working in factories or construction jobs in San Jose, in the banana plantations of Limon, or in various unskilled and semiskilled jobs in the United States.

  Academic text (1997)

• In contrast, northern areas, like the Hampton Road area of Virginia, during the same time employed more than 50 percent of the black workforce of 17,000 in skilled or semiskilled positions (Fusfeld and Bates 1984).

  Academic text (2006)

• He started out in a semiskilled position, helping to operate machinery in the factory.

• Semiskilled labor is essential for various tasks that don't require extensive training.

Antonyms

S

skilled

172 3.5

Having special training and ability to do a job well

U

unskilled

6 2.9

Having no ability or training to do something well

How Skilled

expert

3 3.5

proficient

32 6.0

skilled

172 3.5

semiskilled

1 3.7

unskilled

6 2.9

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Etymology