skilled // adjective

SEMI-SKILLED

1

having the ability, experience and knowledge to be able to do sth well:

a skilled engineer/negotiator

She is highly skilled at dealing with difficult customers.

All our staff are skilled in at least two languages.

a shortage of skilled labour (= workers who have had training in a skill)

2

(about a job) needing special abilities or training:

Furniture-making is very skilled work.

OPP UNSKILLED

• e-money
• emoticon
• emotional capital
• emotional intelligence
• empire
• employ
• employable
• employed
• employee
• employee assistance programme
• employee buyout
• employee involvement
• employee leasing
• employee ownership
• employee participation
• employee referral programme
• employee relations
• employee self service
• employee share ownership plan
• employee stock option
• employer
• employer of record
• employment
• employment agency
• employment costs