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unskilled

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un⋅skilled

  [uhn-skild]
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–adjective
1. of or pertaining to workers who lack technical training or skill.
2. not demanding special training or skill: unskilled occupations.
3. exhibiting a marked lack of skill or competence: an unskilled painting; an unskilled writer.
4. not skilled or expert: He was unskilled in the art of rhetoric.
Origin:
1575–85; un- 1 + skilled
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un·skilled   (ŭn-skĭld')   
adj.  

  1. Lacking skill or technical training: unskilled laborers.

  2. Requiring no training or skill: unskilled jobs; unskilled labor.

  3. Exhibiting a lack of skill; inexpert: an unskilled painting.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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