WordNet
n. a worker who has acquired special skills [syn: trained worker]
Wikipedia
A skilled worker is any worker who has special skill, training, knowledge, and (usually acquired) ability in their work. A skilled worker may have attended a college, university or technical school. Or, a skilled worker may have learned their skills on the job. Examples of skilled labor include software development, paramedics, police officers, physicians, crane operators, drafters, painters, plumbers, craftsmen, and accountants. These workers can be either blue-collar or white-collar workers, with varied levels of training or education.
Usage examples of "skilled worker".
The secretarial chair she sat in was an expensive one, purchased from Japan, the price of it equal to the wages of a skilled worker for, what?
The hole had been measured by laser already, of course, but tradition required that such measurements be tested by the human hand of a skilled worker, and there at the bottom was a middle-aged hard-rock miner whose face beamed with pride.
When she came to Caer Donn, it might not be so easy as in Nevarsin to find work as hawk-keeper or horse-trainer, but certainly it could be done, and certainly Orain, or Dom Carlo himself, could give her a good reference as a willing and skilled worker.
He must time the process, yes, but it will be very bad for him if he causes a skilled worker to throw down his tools and walk out.
She is so afraid that someone else will mess up her performance record that she can drive a skilled worker such as myself up a proverbial tree with her nervous double-check chatter.
Every Empress, noble, skilled worker or unskilled, those with jobs or without, every human being is a living manifestation of First Mother.
Visvakarma, a skilled worker, made good use of this fragment of shining energy by using it to forge the disk of Vishnu, the trident of Siva, the lance of Karttikeya the god of war, and the weapons of Kuvera the god and guardian of wealth.