Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or showing skill; expert. synonym: proficient.
- adjective Requiring specialized ability or training.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having skill; especially, having the knowledge and ability which come from experience; trained; versed; expert; adept; proficient.
- Displaying or requiring skill; involving special knowledge or training: as, skilled labor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by
in .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
skill . - adjective Having or showing
skill ;skilful . - adjective Requiring special abilities or training.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or showing or requiring special skill
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's not like skilled labor, as my husban 'says; though to see what them young ones has to go through, it's labor enough an' to spare; an 'if it ain't just what they call skilled, it's what no one out o' the trade can make a mark at.
Weighed and Wanting George MacDonald 1864
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I know of no problem that faces us more at the present time than the one of marketing the product that we grow in competition with the tremendously increasing imports from abroad, brought in from countries where labor costs anywhere from twenty to fifty cents a day, and at the highest a dollar a day for what they call skilled labor, most of it twenty to fifty cents, and with freight rates across the Atlantic that amount to less than half of our freight rates, or one-quarter of them.
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• Enables employers to keep the workforce intact and retain skilled employees, greatly reducing the costs of recruitment and training when the economy recovers.
Sharing The Pain Of Layoffs Means Losing Fewer Jobs The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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"They think he's not skilled from a sewing standpoint, but his forte is the draping," Garcia explains.
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• Enables employers to keep the workforce intact and retain skilled employees, greatly reducing the costs of recruitment and training when the economy recovers.
Sharing The Pain Of Layoffs Means Losing Fewer Jobs The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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• Enables employers to keep the workforce intact and retain skilled employees, greatly reducing the costs of recruitment and training when the economy recovers.
Sharing The Pain Of Layoffs Means Losing Fewer Jobs The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Stitched soles are expensive to manufacture, but in skilled hands can be resoled almost in perpetuity, until the uppers finally yield and surrender.
Kit Freak « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The premise that protecting our climate and creating a boom in skilled alternative energy jobs is somehow a net loss for California is not a credible argument.
John DeCock: I'm A Cabbage, That's What I Think. What Do You Think? John DeCock 2010
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The idea is to attract and retain skilled technocrats in a country that for years lacked a functioning central government.
Oversight of Pay to Kabul Is Lax, U.S. Audit Says Nathan Hodge 2010
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The premise that protecting our climate and creating a boom in skilled alternative energy jobs is somehow a net loss for California is not a credible argument.
John DeCock: I'm A Cabbage, That's What I Think. What Do You Think? John DeCock 2010
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