skilled worker

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Noun

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skilled worker - a worker who has acquired special skills skilled workman, trained worker worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker" oceanaut, aquanaut - a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research armorer, armourer - a worker skilled in making armor or arms; "a sword made by a famous English armorer" aeronaut, airman, aviator, flier, flyer - someone who operates an aircraft bread maker, baker - someone who bakes bread or cake balloonist - someone who flies a balloon slaughterer, butcher - a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market calligrapher, calligraphist - someone skilled in penmanship minter, moneyer, coiner - a skilled worker who coins or stamps money cook - someone who cooks food artisan, journeyman, artificer, craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft crew member, crewman - a member of a flight crew cutter - someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) dental hygienist - someone trained to provide preventive dental service (cleaning teeth or taking x-rays) draftsman, draftsperson, draughtsman - a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines dyer - someone whose job is to dye cloth editor, editor in chief - a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) electrician, linesman, lineman - a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines engraver - a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching aesthetician, esthetician - a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) fisher, fisherman - someone whose occupation is catching fish founder - a worker who makes metal castings framer - someone who makes frames (as for pictures) fumigator - someone whose job is to fumigate galvaniser, galvanizer - a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc gilder - someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt grip - worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made harpooneer, harpooner - someone who launches harpoons hunter, huntsman - someone who hunts game indexer - someone who provides an index laminator - a person who makes laminates (especially plastic laminates) lobsterman - a person whose occupation is catching lobsters lockkeeper, lockman, lockmaster - a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) mender, repairer, fixer - a skilled worker who mends or repairs things funeral director, funeral undertaker, mortician, undertaker - one whose business is the management of funerals mounter - a skilled worker who mounts pictures or jewels etc. functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office oilman - a worker who produces or sells petroleum lens maker, optician - a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision painter - a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint perfecter - a skilled worker who perfects something; "although not the inventor he must be recognized as the perfecter of this technique" phlebotomist - someone who practices phlebotomy plaiter - someone who plaits (hair or fabric etc.) plasterer - a worker skilled in applying plaster plater - a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold)