Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking skill or technical training.
- adjective Requiring no training or skill.
- adjective Exhibiting a lack of skill; inexpert.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking skill; destitute of or not characterized by special skill or trained dexterity.
- Destitute of practical knowledge; unacquainted; unfamiliar: as, unskilled in chemistry.
- Produced without skill or dexterity; showing no evidence of skill in production.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a person or workforce: not having a
skill ortechnical training . - adjective Of a job: not
requiring skill or training. - adjective Of a made object:
inexpertly made orshowing alack of skill.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not doing a good job
- adjective not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency
- adjective lacking professional skill or expertise
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Well, besides the chef and sous chef, they had some college kids from restaurant schools and some islanders for the support staff — that's what they call the unskilled jobs."
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Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour, said the temporary foreign worker program has become a massive tool for bringing in unskilled workers to work for wages that no Canadian would accept.
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Employers are spoiled by immigrant labor, both in unskilled and skilled positions by illegals and H-1B entrants.
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He would, for instance, claim that certain unskilled workers were essential to the factory.
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Heaven when a few of the strikers went into the country to compete with them in unskilled employments.
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Those are referenced so many times because they are key hints about Mary Sues, political beliefs being similar or the same have a tendency in unskilled writers to lead to mouthpieces or Public Service Announcements.
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If you want to send kids out into the world to get started in unskilled labor only to have that job outsourced and be jobless at 40 years of age an unemployable, then by all means please say so.
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So why, pray, are the unskilled from the European Union welcome while those from the developing world are not?
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So why, pray, are the unskilled from the European Union welcome while those from the developing world are not?
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One result of that is, that all labour, being largely unskilled, is transient; it has not come to Buenos Ayres with the idea of staying there, or staying anywhere in particular.
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