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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

Automation, the researchers noted, will boost employee safety and well-being and help manufacturers retain skilled labor.

“In the next five years, they are more likely to stay active, particularly small companies that are very dependent on skilled labor.”

“We would not have an economy, in Maine or in the U.S. if we did not have highly skilled labor that comes from outside of this country,” Tilton-Flood said in a phone interview with The Associated Press from her farm.

The government has attempted to deal with the shortage of skilled labor by passing laws easing immigration for workers in needed fields and by shortening the wait to become a citizen from eight years to five, and three in some circumstances.

Training enslaved people like Sambo Andersen to do skilled labor saved the penny-wise Washington from having to hire costly outside tradesmen.

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