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skilled labor

noun

  1. labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  2. the workers employed in such labor.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of skilled labor1

First recorded in 1770–80

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Example Sentences

We are suffering from shortages of skilled labor while women who have those skills are unable to work.

From Time

Secondly, we don’t think of it as skilled labor like construction.

From Vox

Workers receive a skill-based education that often places them directly in well-paying jobs, and employers benefit by recruiting and retaining a skilled labor force.

What a lost opportunity to employ and train Somalis and build out a skilled labor sector.

Building one of these beauties takes 604 hours of highly skilled labor.

The number of jobs requiring high-skilled labor has declined.

Furnished all the brain power anyway, and skilled labor outranks muscle at any time.

In his first great mill strike Colonel Harris lost most of his skilled labor and the profits of half a year.

The proper solution of the skilled labor problem is strictly within the power of the individual Negro.

The farm laborer finds himself advanced to the ranks of skilled labor.

Thats what takes the blood out of a man, the everlasting wrench of trying to get skilled labor that is skilled.

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