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unskilled
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unskilled
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unskilled worker
▪ Some ex-miners now had jobs as unskilled workers in factories.
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
■ NOUN
job
▪ It seemed indeed that the numbers of low-paid unskilled jobs were growing with the advance of mechanization.
▪ The majority are adult women workers in below-average-income families laboring in unskilled jobs, often in the retail sector.
▪ For every unskilled job we advertise, we get a hundred applicants - more than a hundred.
labor
▪ In this regard, it seems to be essential to distinguish between the skilled and unskilled labor markets.
▪ The result: a flooded unskilled labor market.
▪ First, substitution possibilities are not symmetrical between the skilled and the unskilled labor.
▪ Those empty countries needed both people and unskilled labor.
▪ The union quest to preserve the rights and prerogatives of unskilled labor are doomed to failure.
▪ The demand for unskilled labor is going down; the pool of unskilled labor is growing...
▪ Well-paying jobs for unskilled labor are disappearing at an alarming rate.
labour
▪ That is, where unskilled labour prevailed there was chronic want and deprivation.
▪ If they are wanted at all they are probably wanted in large numbers and to be made in a hurry by unskilled labour.
▪ Here over half the total workforce was unskilled, and here resided nearly half the borough's pool of unskilled labour.
▪ The shift from the main traditional occupation, agriculture, to unskilled labour, was considerable.
▪ It was an industrial structure weighted heavily toward the use of semiskilled and unskilled labour.
man
▪ The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men.
▪ It is far higher-and rising-among unskilled men than among professional men.
▪ At the bottom end, less-skilled women have been losing out, but by much less than unskilled men.
work
▪ It is no condemnation of those people, but that is semi-skilled or unskilled work.
▪ Thanks to under-mechanisation, one-third of youths with specialised secondary school qualifications end up doing unskilled work.
▪ They may require elements of microbiology and chemical science as well as organisational ability but they are still generally regarded as unskilled work.
worker
▪ Professional men, for example, see half as many friends again as unskilled workers.
▪ She traveled to Mississippi to help unskilled workers get jobs at shipyards in Pascagoula, the hometown of Lott.
▪ Semi-skilled and unskilled workers were more willing to relocate than management and professional staff.
▪ At about the same time, in 1884, the trade union movement began to reach poorer, unskilled workers.
▪ This was inpart due to the emergence of New Unionism which sought to organize unskilled workers.
▪ For low-skilled or unskilled workers, Reich notes, technology is taking away jobs.
▪ Are they both unskilled workers or is she in a higher class than her husband?
▪ Furthermore social surveys had shown that early marriage, by unskilled workers could lead to poverty and destitution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ unskilled labor
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among the most obvious categories here are the unskilled, the young, black people and those made redundant from manufacturing.
▪ Here in these slum streets existed an army of the unskilled, all trying to wrest a living anyway they could.
▪ Members of this, the larger group of temporary workers, were most likely to be unskilled or semi-skilled.
▪ She traveled to Mississippi to help unskilled workers get jobs at shipyards in Pascagoula, the hometown of Lott.
▪ The demand for unskilled labor is going down; the pool of unskilled labor is growing...
▪ The highly educated women who have started working apace are hardly competing with unskilled men.
▪ The result: a flooded unskilled labor market.
▪ This was inpart due to the emergence of New Unionism which sought to organize unskilled workers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unskilled

1580s, from un- (1) "not" + skill.

Wiktionary
unskilled

a. Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.

WordNet
unskilled

  1. adj. not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship" [ant: skilled]

  2. lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting" [syn: amateurish, amateur, inexpert]

  3. not doing a good job; "incompetent at chess" [syn: incompetent]

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Usage examples of "unskilled".

This man can then do all the unskilled work in the garage, as if he were an apprentice on the first day of his apprenticeship.

They were equally unskilled in the arts of constructing, besieging, or defending regular fortifications.

Still, in order not to appear totally unskilled, she taught herself how to make two dishes: chicken cacciatore and blanquette de veau.

It was in like manner inevitable, from the fact that the immigrant class are preponderantly poor and of low social rank, that it should for two or three generations be looked upon as a church for the illiterate and unskilled laboring class.

The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and unskilled.

She had no questioners among her people, and accorddng to Aviendha, an unskilled questioner was likely to kill the one being put unsuccessfully to the question.

Bren complained, and replaited the last few turns, which, with her movement, had escaped the half-tied ribbon and his unskilled fingers.

An unskilled hand, yet one informed With genius, had the marble warmed With that pathetic life.

There was something in the honest, unskilled way in which these boys had laid their hearts open before her in this time of general sorrow, that brought the tears into her eyes at last, and for many minutes they flowed without restraint.

Still, in order not to appear totally unskilled, she taught herself how to make two dishes: chicken cacciatore and blanquette de veau.

Then there were the younger lads like myself who were unskilled, and when they boasted it was of quick sessions they themselves enjoyed.

But a machine with neutralizers could also be treacherous for an unskilled operator.

In this case, his options were so severely limited that although he might be an unskilled brooder, he was able quickly to arrive at a plan of action.

There was only a platoon of boatwrights at East Gate, but they were our best boatwrights, and they had plenty of eager if unskilled help.

He had tried, briefly, to live a quiet life like Breck, but he was unskilled as a farmer and clumsy as a carpenter, and so had returned to the only thing he had ever excelled atonce again, he became a soldier.