skilling
- noun
- Archaic
Examples
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So they sent in skilling guards which is full of Irish people.
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There are also staffing options, such as up-skilling nursery nurses to administer home-based care, which limit the financial impact of this model.
Academic text (2009) -
"Continual learning is often a response to advancements in ICTs, a 're-skilling' to offset the 'de-skilling' effects of technology.
Academic text (2005) -
"Continual learning is often a response to advancements in ICTs, a 're-skilling' to offset the 'de-skilling' effects of technology.
Academic text (2005) -
In a study analyzing occupational trends and projections in four industry sectors, Thomas Bailey (1990) finds that both skilling and de-skilling occur.
Academic text (1995) -
While there is no recipe, high-performance systems tend to include some combination of teamwork, multi-skilling, employee involvement, performance-based pay, family-friendly practices, and mutual-gains bargaining.
Academic text (1996) -
In Denmark, people used to trade goods for a few skilling as it was a common form of currency.
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He found an old coin from the 18th century that was a skilling from Sweden.
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The collector proudly displayed his rare skilling coins from various Scandinavian countries.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skilling comes from an old Norse word for a small coin and is the same root as the English shilling, so you can remember it as a little Scandinavian 'shilling' coin.