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unskilled [ʌnˈskɪld] adj
1. not having or requiring any special skill or training unskilled workers an unskilled job 2. having or displaying no skill; inexpert he is quite unskilled at dancing ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
unskilled adjective unprofessional, inexperienced, unqualified, untrained, uneducated, amateurish, cowboy (informal), untalented Most of those who left the province to work abroad were unskilled. professional, skilled, expert, masterly, qualified, talented, adept, tasty (Brit. informal) Translations unskilled [ˈʌnˈskɪld] A. ADJ [work] → no especializado B. CPD unskilled worker N → trabajador(a) m/f no cualificado/a, trabajador(a) m/f no calificado/a(LAm) unskilled [ʌnˈskɪld] adj [person, labourer] → non qualifié(e), non spécialisé(e) unskilled worker → ouvrier/ière m/f non spécialisé(e), manœuvre m [work, job, labour] → non qualifié(e) unskilled adj work, worker → ungelernt; many people remained unskilled → viele Menschen erlernten keinen Beruf; to be unskilled in something → ungeübt in etw (dat) → sein; to be unskilled in doing something → ungeübt darin sein, etw zu tun; unskilled labour (Brit) or labor (US) (= workers) → Hilfsarbeiter pl (= inexperienced) → ungeübt, unerfahren unskilled [ʌnˈskɪld] adj (worker, manpower) → non specializzato/a unskilled [ʌnˈskɪld] adj (worker, manpower) → non specializzato/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The sale of their products so brought down prices that farming was ruined, and their skilled and unskilled labour drove the artisans and labourers into the almshouses and highways. It recalled me from the forgotten eon to which my brain had flown and left me once again a modern man battling with a clumsy, unskilled brute. Freddie Drummond was a professor in the Sociology Department of the University of California, and it was as a professor of sociology that he first crossed over the Slot, lived for six mouths in the great labour-ghetto, and wrote The Unskilled Labourer--a book that was hailed everywhere as an able contribution to the literature of progress, and as a splendid reply to the literature of discontent. |
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