adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a skilled craft
▪ Building stone walls is a highly skilled craft.
a skilled worker (=one who has special skills)
▪ There is a shortage of skilled workers.
highly skilled/trained/educated
▪ She is a highly educated woman.
skilled personnel
▪ Organizations need to be able to attract skilled personnel.
skilled/educated/flexible etc workforce
skilled/unskilled labour
▪ Employers want to keep skilled labour because of the cost of training.
skilled/unskilled occupations (=needing training and experience/not needing training and experience)
▪ Plumbing and carpentry are highly skilled occupations.
▪ Workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer job opportunities.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Their chief concern is that their status as skilled specialists should be recognised and respected.
▪ She was actually foreshortening, as skilled portrait painters do.
highly
▪ In a constituency such as mine there are many highly skilled men, such as shipbuilders and welders, out of work.
▪ In 1992, 11 percent of all employment visas went to highly skilled scientists.
▪ Hedge-laying is a highly skilled craft, and even at moderate charges your hedge will seem expensive.
▪ The visas are issued according to a system of five preferences, with the most highly skilled falling into the top preferences.
▪ Toolroom turning is one of the most highly skilled jobs of all.
▪ The most highly skilled soldiers advocated rapid maneuver and quick assault when contact was made.
▪ These surveys are invariably undertaken by specialist research organizations, since the construction and administration of questionnaires is a highly skilled operation.
▪ Keeping highly skilled sailors in the Navy also is a challenge.
less
▪ Jobclubs are aimed at the younger and less skilled end of the market.
more
▪ So, the first requirement is that older workers should be included in the drive for a more skilled workforce.
▪ Judging by wages the import-competing sector is slightly more skilled than the exporting sector.
▪ All but the far right have acknowledged the need to develop a more skilled workforce, since whites can no longer fill the demand.
▪ Foreign manufacturers have preferred to invest in states where the work force is more skilled and the infrastructure is better.
▪ At this point appeared a major difference from Napoleonic warfare: much more skilled staff work was now required.
▪ The departments which employed men were paid above the minimum wage and men's jobs were invariably classified as more skilled activities.
▪ Rather more skilled crafts, such as fullers, shearmen, cutlers, painters and butchers, were around the £10 mark.
most
▪ Molecular variation under nature reveals divisions invisible to the most skilled taxonomist.
▪ Many opportunities will exist for the most skilled, adaptable, and knowledgeable financial managers.
▪ But the most skilled and ingenious of all mud-builders are termites.
▪ At the very top of the workforce, the United States is both the most skilled and by far the highest paid.
▪ The most skilled and literate combined the keenest sense of grievance with the ability to articulate their aspirations.
▪ Some economists attribute much of the rising wage inequality in this country to the shift in favor of the most skilled workers.
▪ A few of the guides employed in the park were once the most skilled poachers.
▪ The modelling possibilities should challenge the most skilled hands.
very
▪ Family work with elderly people is a very skilled activity.
▪ The Treasury were very, very skilled chaps in more or less stopping you doing anything.
▪ Thus co-ordinate indexing was not recommended for use in schools without very skilled staff being present to operate and coordinate its use.
▪ In politics there are some very successful makers of deals and some very skilled negotiators.
▪ It's actually a very skilled job.
▪ Riding to hounds, taking fences and obstacles along a route dictated by the fox is a very skilled activity.
■ NOUN
craftsman
▪ Its rarity and beauty has made it much prized, easily worked by skilled craftsmen and worn by both men and women.
▪ The programme would be labour-intensive and give work to skilled craftsmen as well as apprenticeships to unskilled school-leavers.
▪ A small number were textile millworkers, others were miners, fishermen, or seamen, skilled craftsmen, or farmworkers.
▪ It has been estimated that the industry may be short of some 50,000 skilled craftsmen in the next two years.
employee
▪ Industries with critical labor shortages launched youth apprenticeships as a way to recruit skilled employees.
▪ There was a letter to the immigration depart-ment about harassing skilled employees on-site.
hand
▪ One misses an editor's skilled hand.
▪ Under her skilled hands a snake of clay was being coiled into the shape of a large globular jar.
▪ The modelling possibilities should challenge the most skilled hands.
job
▪ Toolroom turning is one of the most highly skilled jobs of all.
▪ Too many skilled workers for too few skilled jobs are driving down salaries.
▪ Loss of skilled jobs at Broughton would be unthinkable, say the unions.
▪ Traditionally, skilled jobs have tended to be defined as those requiring apprenticeships.
▪ Joining each box section is a highly skilled job.
▪ Interviewing is certainly a skilled job when carried out properly, but it is not a mystical union between interviewer and respondent.
▪ It's actually a very skilled job.
labor
▪ Scientific wages have already started to respond to what is effectively a new cheap source of very highly skilled labor.
▪ Boeing blamed late aircraft deliveries, snarled assembly lines and shortages of parts and skilled labor for the loss.
▪ He needed to attract and retain skilled labor.
▪ These reformers were joined by powerful forces in the business community who wanted the schools to help train a skilled labor pool.
labour
▪ It says it can not get or keep skilled labour.
▪ In July, 16 % of respondents said lack of skilled labour was likely to limit output.
▪ Chief executive Arno Bohn told me that securing skilled labour for its Stuttgart plant was no problem.
▪ Plants in such areas tend to be less innovative, their technologies are older, and they employ less skilled labour.
▪ Such an economy was highly dependent on a vast mass of skilled labour and a greater horde of the lesser skilled.
▪ Employers also wished to retain skilled labour to recoup their investment in training costs.
▪ The shortage of skilled labour will often occur when there are competitive local labour markets.
▪ Worst of all, it has to be dug out of the ground by expensive skilled labour.
man
▪ That was to encourage a skilled man to stay.
▪ In a constituency such as mine there are many highly skilled men, such as shipbuilders and welders, out of work.
▪ Although well above the best wages of a skilled man, it was neither market-determined nor received by all registered professionals.
▪ The skilled man could be replaced by the factory hand.
▪ And the old problem remained that skilled men would neither be given suitable work nor time to seek it for themselves.
▪ The Industrial Revolution was gathering pace, and the new machines were throwing skilled men out of work.
manpower
▪ Money and skilled manpower are the main constraints.
▪ Equally, all the machinery in the world would be useless without the skilled manpower to use it.
▪ Righting the economy demanded major cuts in Defence spending and the release of skilled manpower from the Services to export-orientated industries.
negotiator
▪ Organizational structure was driven by the necessity of having skilled negotiators in close proximity.
▪ In politics there are some very successful makers of deals and some very skilled negotiators.
▪ The less skilled negotiator prefers to leave things vague and ambiguous fearing that explicitness will jeopardize any agreement.
operator
▪ A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators.
▪ The skilled operator will aim for efficient performance.
people
▪ Yet he is loath to part with skilled people who could prove difficult to replace come the upturn.
▪ Instead, we imprisoned thousands of skilled people, and thousands more fled in terror.
▪ The further research here will continue to study highly skilled people but will give special attention to the problems of acquisition.
▪ We need engineers and skilled people.
▪ Some forecasts suggest that, by the turn of the century, 250,000 skilled people will have been lost to the industry.
▪ No, we are not skilled people as such, but we also have our dignity and self respect.
▪ The best of them have produced a small number of highly educated and skilled people.
personnel
▪ The prospects for tourism were constrained by limited airline capacity and the lack of skilled personnel.
▪ Early editions of the Dundee Evening Telegraph newspaper last night carried an advertisement for semi-skilled and skilled personnel.
practitioner
▪ Patients who suffer a cardiac arrest are treated by skilled practitioners.
▪ A trained and skilled practitioner can tailor a session to treat insomnia by reducing muscular tension and promoting relaxation.
▪ It has been shown that endoscopy is safe even in high risk groups if performed by a skilled practitioner.
▪ Most skilled practitioners do not use just one style or one particular stroke, but a combination of a variety of techniques.
▪ Granted, any skilled practitioner could make a set of numbers sew a quilt that could cover an airplane hangar.
reader
▪ The skilled reader does not guess so much as eliminate alternatives by the most efficient route.
▪ Indeed, in Mason's experiment, the skilled readers showed smaller overall response time differences between words and nonwords.
▪ When faced with familiar letter-strings in novel combinations, skilled readers perform better than less skilled readers.
▪ Although words can be processed by a number of different routes, for skilled readers the lexical route is the most attractive.
▪ Experimental data show that skilled readers readily use their orthographic knowledge when processing words.
▪ Long, easy nonwords gained responses from the skilled readers which were no slower than those to short, difficult nonwords.
staff
▪ The plant will be effectively sealed off from the world apart from periodic inspection and monitoring visits by skilled staff.
▪ Thus co-ordinate indexing was not recommended for use in schools without very skilled staff being present to operate and coordinate its use.
▪ At this point appeared a major difference from Napoleonic warfare: much more skilled staff work was now required.
▪ He says that they need skilled staff - there aren't enough being trained.
▪ Lack of available products, skilled staff and standards appear to be the major obstacles to adopting open systems strategies.
▪ Wherever possible we recruit skilled staff locally.
work
▪ The obvious solution - to move into more capital-intensive highly skilled work - is being energetically pursued.
▪ In all his years in Los Angeles, he worked twenty-three jobs, only two of them involving skilled work.
▪ Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government.
▪ Success was due to local steel and a reputation for skilled work.
▪ The usual criterion for skilled work is the serving of an apprenticeship.
▪ Without a skilled work force, we can not compete in world markets.
worker
▪ Policies of economic redistribution to the less well off met with resistance from skilled workers at a time of low economic growth.
▪ The gap between the knowledge of. the skilled worker and bourgeois technician has virtually disappeared or been greatly reduced.
▪ At present the work focuses on developing comparative lists of qualifications and job descriptions for occupations at the skilled worker level.
▪ Of the approximately 123, 000 employment visas issued in 1994, most did not go to skilled workers.
▪ We would have to import skilled workers from abroad.
▪ His identification with skilled workers, forged at the pump works, was real.
▪ Good telecommunications links can bring them closer to western markets, giving their skilled workers less incentive to emigrate.
▪ As a result, when import-competing industries contract, they do not in fact lay off proportionally more unskilled than skilled workers.
workforce
▪ So, the first requirement is that older workers should be included in the drive for a more skilled workforce.
▪ Its goal was to create a highly skilled workforce for the Susquehanna Valley, where P &038; G is located.
▪ All but the far right have acknowledged the need to develop a more skilled workforce, since whites can no longer fill the demand.
▪ Together, the four groups produce a highly skilled workforce that no one institution could develop on its own.
▪ At Leyland, Preston and Chorley a skilled workforce has built up a reputation over many years for producing lorries and buses.
▪ A highly skilled workforce trained in designing and manufacturing high-quality, high value-added products at low cost, with shorter lead times.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Keeping highly skilled sailors in the Navy is a priority.
▪ More women are entering skilled trades such as carpentry and cooking.
▪ Our advisors are skilled at dealing with financial problems.
▪ Shoeing a horse is a skilled job, and no unskilled person should try it.
▪ There is a demand for carpenters and other skilled craftsmen.
▪ There is a shortage of skilled workers in the area.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alyse was a skilled rider and tried to help me with my technique, but I never excelled.
▪ As is typical of most women's paid employment, this work is not considered particularly skilled and wages are low.
▪ I have a friend at Sotheby's, who is sending a skilled art packer to box up these things tomorrow.
▪ Instead, we imprisoned thousands of skilled people, and thousands more fled in terror.
▪ Many Silicon Valley companies are growing so fast, they are eager to build a skilled high-tech workforce.
▪ Nevertheless, as in many other situations the analyst, himself a skilled performer, has some success in practice.
▪ The hallmark of the industrial revolution has been the slow replacement of the unskilled by the skilled.
▪ This mechanisation helped the skilled workers to increase production rapidly and to produce the cloth more cheaply.