skilled labourer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofskilledandlabourer
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skilled
adjective
uk/skɪld/us/skɪld/
having the abilities needed to do an activity or ...
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labourer
noun[C]
uk/ˈleɪ.bər.ər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ.ɚ/
a person who does unskilled physical work, ...
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(Definition ofskilledandlabourerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We offered the man work as askilledlabourer.
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In certain cases theskilledlabourerdoes work which is done outside by a mechanic.
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What sort of compensation is £2 for askilledlabourerearning £6 a week?
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It is quite true that oneskilledlabourerhas left of his own accord.
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It requires a farm foreman, or deputy foreman or askilledlabourer.
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There is the ordinary labourer, and there is theskilledlabourer.
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He is called askilledlabourerby some people and something else by others.
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It is easy to lose askilledlabourer, but not easy to replace him.
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It is not necessary for askilledlabourerto serve twelve months on that rate.
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Theskilledlaboureris the man upon whom the labourer depends.
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All you have to do is to grade up theskilledlabourer, whom you will rapidly make a skilled workman, and the unskilled labourer will make askilledlabourer.
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Under the recent concessions noskilledlabourermay be retained on the minimum rate for more than twelve months.
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I imagine that it is the old question of demarcation of work between the joiner and theskilledlabourer.
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We have in the dockyard an organisation which comprises the labourer, theskilledlabourer, and the mechanic.
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Theskilledlaboureris equal to the mechanic outside, so far as the rivetters and the caulkers are concerned.
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The proportion of plant investment in eachskilledlaboureris extremely high, and it is getting higher.
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Theskilledlabourergets considerably less wage per week than the shipwright, while the deduction is the same.
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A bricklayer is a very important man, but he is not the shadow of use unless he has askilledlabourerwith him.
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These concessions will cost over £25,000 a year for the men at the lowest rungs of the ladder, the labourer and theskilledlabourer.
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I stand here and say deliberately that we have found by employing theskilledlabourerwe can give him more continuous work.
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There is noskilledlabourerwho has served in that capacity for eleven years employed as a hydraulic or steam crane driver on the minimum wage.
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He said the farmer would have the non-commissioned officer—presumably theskilledlabourerof to-day—who will train the others to handle the pitchfork or garden fork.
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They call, roughly, rivetters, drillers, and others skilled labourers; but in one sense we are all skilled labourers — every tradesman and artizan to the highest mechanic is askilledlabourer.
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