particular skill

collocation in English

meaningsofparticularandskill

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particular
adjective
uk
/pəˈtɪk.jə.lər/
us
/pɚˈtɪk.jə.lɚ/
special, or this and not ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk
/skɪl/
us
/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofparticularandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofparticular skill

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Moreover, these kinds of acts typically require agents with aparticularskillor facility.
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Level of -uency depends in large part on the need for and use of a language (and aparticularskill).
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For instance, there is usually a generation between parents and offspring learning aparticularskill, while peers or siblings learn skills at more similar times.
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What was hisparticularskilland motivation in dealing with the central government?
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Literacy development may be influenced not by oneparticularskillbut by a range of factors in combination.
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For example, if aparticularskillis needed by two separate tasks, the agent can be used to address both, provided it has sufficient computational power.
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A physical description might refer to the level of effort of labor of aparticularskillrequired (in combination with other inputs) to produce another good.
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When the industry is involved with large installations, a rapid growth in aparticularskillis demanded.
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The object is to see that the man joins the union to which hisparticularskilland craft applies.
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In areas that have suffered rapid change,particularskillshortages are found.
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If, in addition to being poor, you have noparticularskill, profession or job, we shall look at you thrice.
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Some people would argue whether they derive from anyparticularskill.
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But some effort must be made to bring in thisparticularskill.
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A man does not need to have any particular standards orparticularskill.
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Theparticularskillinvolved here is making sure that the chemical reaction does not foul itself up.
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They are craftsmen with aparticularskill, and putting a lathe into a workshop does not make a man a business man overnight.
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It is inescapable that, occasionally, aparticularskillis not in the public sector or in the conventional private sector but in the charitable field.
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I do not believe that you can train people to be efficient in anyparticularskillwithout first creating an interest.
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What these people are capable of doing is, within one week, learning aparticularskillwhich the technologists require.
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