skilled worker
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3.1
- noun
- /skɪld ˈwɜrkər/
:
trabajador cualificado
- The company is looking to hire skilled workers who can efficiently operate complex machinery.
- highly skilled workers
- shortage of skilled workers
- need for skilled workers
You, you get very highly skilled workers and often they're called guilds, like the writers guilds.
- You, you get very highly skilled workers and often they're called guilds, like the writers guilds.
- So, you know, it's, it's, we sort of assume that there's workers, these skilled workers exist for in, in our environment.
Examples
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Many industries are struggling to find enough skilled workers to fill their job vacancies.
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But it's interesting to see that AI can reduce the advantage that highly skilled workers have over lower skilled workers.
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Therefore, you should not be allowed to find your skilled workers somewhere else.
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So, it is your own fault if you cannot find skilled workers, not ours.
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Skilled workers in America often create more value when working with other skilled workers.
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So it's just a collection of highly-skilled workers providing a service.
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Increase the number of skilled workers in the United States by encouraging skilled immigrants.
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Professionals would like to view these categories of skilled workers on a job-specific basis.
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However, many experts are predicting a shortage of skilled workers in the next century.
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Furthermore, the new fruit-growing estates employ skilled workers, not traditional cultivators.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
∞
3.2
A person who knows a lot about a subject and can help others
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3.9
A person who knows a lot about one area of work or study
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3.7
A trained person who installs and fixes machines or equipment
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2.8
A person who makes useful or beautiful things by hand and is very skilled
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4.7
A person who is very skilled at something
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3.2
A skilled worker who does building or repair work
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2.4
A person who has learned special skills for a job
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3.6
A person who does skilled physical work like an electrician or carpenter
A man trained to do a certain trade like a carpenter
A woman with special training who does a job well
Antonyms
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'skilled' (having expertise) modifies 'worker' (a person who works), yielding 'a worker with specialized training or expertise,' so the sense is derivable from the parts. This ADJ+NOUN pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun skilled worker comes from old workshops where young people learned a craft by training for years under an experienced worker. The word skilled shows they had 'special skills' and worker shows they did the work, so today skilled worker means someone with special training for a job.