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🪙 An old coin 👨‍🏫 To train
to skilling

to skilling

1 5.0
To teach people skills they need for work
  • verb
  • /ˈskɪlɪŋ/
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  • Teachers are working hard to skill their students in computer programming.

A third one is skills coming right back to skilling up.

Examples

  • It means that that they need to constantly be re skilled and learn new things just to keep up with their jobs.

  • And right now people have to skill up more than ever.

  • The company offers training programs to skill employees in new technologies.

  • He attended workshops to skill himself in leadership and team management.

Synonyms

to teach
vsto skilling
∞ 1.0

To help someone learn skills, habits, or knowledge

concentrates on teaching one specific job skill rather than broad instruction
to train
vsto skilling
∞ 1.0

To teach someone skills by practice and help

focuses on building a particular work skill rather than general practice
to develop
vsto skilling
737 1.8

To help a person or group learn skills and improve

targets a single work skill rather than general long-term growth
to educate
vsto skilling
627 2.2

To give someone knowledge and skills by teaching or training over time

is short and practical, aimed at a single skill for work
to drill (someone)
vsto skilling
3.9

Make someone practice a skill again and again to improve it

is broader, aiming to build one work skill not only by repetition

How Thorough

to drill
55 2.9
to train
442 1.0
to coach
224 2.0
to skilling
1 5.0
to teach
∞ 1.0
to instruct
  • Formal
85 2.6
to demonstrate
211 3.1

Surface Forms

skilling infinitive
skilled past
skilled past participle
skilling present participle
skills third person singular

Morphology

skilling = skill (transparent) = skill + ing

The form is a regular -ing extension of the verb base 'skill', and the meaning is directly recoverable from that base.

Etymology

Skilling as a verb comes from the English word skill, which means 'ability', so to 'skill' someone is to give them that ability by teaching or training for work.