practical skill

collocation in English

meaningsofpracticalandskill

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practical
adjective
uk
/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/us
/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/
relating to experience, real situations, or actions rather than ideas ...
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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 ofpracticalandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Formal training rather thanpracticalskilland reputation now defined the good midwife.
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But management is apracticalskill, and more management training ought, in my opinion, to be training by doing throughout working life.
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For over 25 years thatpracticalskilltransfer has brought new insights and applications to thousands of organisations and businesses in the developing world.
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They are going into it most carefully with persons ofpracticalskillin these matters to see if it is workable.
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But it was not on the basis of a narrow commitment merely to acquring some additionalpracticalskill.
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There are now combined courses in which a morepracticalskillis taught instead of literature.
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But the detection of early breast cancer is a verypracticalskill.
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In teaching geography it is an exceptionally useful tool which, particularly in schools, also encourages the development of thepracticalskillof map reading.
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Kids who do not go abroad for their holidays need to know that speaking a foreign language is apracticalskill.
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Education is apracticalskill, applied to children by people who know a subject and have it as their business to make children aware of the content of that subject.
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Therefore, key curriculum elements includedpracticalskilldevelopment (typing, dictation, etc.) as well as professionalism and personal deportment.
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The objective is typically a course of study, lesson plan, or apracticalskill.
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It is difficult to judge hispracticalskillin his profession, but it was highly esteemed in his own day.
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These were either action-based or required basicpracticalskillor knowledge related to the history of movie making.
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Explorers may receive verbal lectures,practicalskillassessments, scenario mitigation, and other methods of instruction.
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She has argued that being virtuous involves practical reasoning which can be compared to the exercising of apracticalskill.
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Much of this scientific and technological progress related to thepracticalskillof navigation.
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His research interests lie in issues concerning meaning, definition andpracticalskilland interconnections between philosophy and psychiatry.
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Therefore, the high quality graduates with fundamental knowledge andpracticalskillare expected to involve in different industrial activities and team works.
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Practical skills training, developing topic schedules, using stimulus materials, recording, note taking, transcribing, conducting discussions and anticipating analysis.
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