semi-skilled

A form of semiskilled — Requiring, or having, only minimal levels of training.

Meanings

adjectivesemi-skilled (comparative more semi-skilled, superlative most semi-skilled)

comparative more semi-skilled · superlative most semi-skilled

  1. alternativeAlternative form of semiskilled.

    "We invested £53m in maintenance alone in 2021, which directly supports skilled and semi-skilled jobs across the UK.

    2023 April 19, “Network News: Angel Trains refutes union's claims over 'scandalous' dividend payments”, in RAIL, number 981, page 15
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    A disruption caused the first semi-skilled factory job to end in 145 cases (three per cent of the total sample) and as a result many of these workers experienced either a semi-skilled factory mobile profile or downward occupational mobility if they were not so lucky.

    1987, Shirley Dex -, Women’s Occupational Mobility: A Lifetime Perspective, →ISBN, page 54

    This includes all tasks that he could now undertake: within his particular trade if he is a tradesman; or within some range, whether limited or very wide, of semi-skilled tasks if he is a process worker; or within the range of labouring tasks (and possibly semi-skilled tasks) if he is a labourer

    2017, Paul Lafitte, Social Structure and Personality in the Factory, →ISBN, page 78
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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