semi-skilled worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsemi-skilledandworker
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semi-skilled
adjective
uk/ˌsem.iˈskɪld/us/ˌsem.iˈskɪld/
having or needing only a small amount ...
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worker
noun[C]
uk/ˈwɜː.kər/us/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofsemi-skilledandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He was employed there first as an unskilled construction worker and, later, as asemi-skilledworkerin the ironworks.
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On average, a police officer now receives four-fifths of the take home pay of the average skilled orsemi-skilledworkerin this country.
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Those women have passed into the ranks of thesemi-skilledworker.
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In national newspapers, for example, the average earnings of asemi-skilledworkertoday is £206.85 per week—£10,765 per year.
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Thesemi-skilledworkeron £129 a week—that is a good wage for a skilled worker in my constituency — who lives in a council house has lost £8·05 a week.
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In the industries where the new technologies are being used, craftsmen are in many cases being replaced by semi-skilled workers and there is considerable redundancy.
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It is outside the question altogether to introduce the matter of women workers and semi-skilled workers.
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The skilled workers and the semi-skilled workers were, respectively, just above and just below the average.
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The sum of £5 for one hour's work is now the rate for many semi-skilled workers, and we are referring here to an annual income.
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Their average earnings are now about £3 a week less than those of unskilled and semi-skilled workers in other trades, even including overtime.
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About 10,000 of these were for skilled and semi-skilled workers.
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The industry not only employed thousands of skilled and semi-skilled workers but provided work for the smaller firms in the area.
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When other parts of the country were booming, it still had its areas of unemployment and a residue of unskilled and semi-skilled workers seeking employment.
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Only one out of ten came from the sons of semi-skilled workers—foremen, clerks and tradesmen, for example.
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The metal finishing industry is characterised by small factory units employing unskilled or semi-skilled workers.
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They are not labourers, or semi-skilled workers; they are craftsmen of the highest calibre.
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She cannot take up the slack of the older workers, the semi-skilled workers, and those kinds of people.
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So, if anything, those who came from the homes of skilled or semi-skilled workers benefited as against the others on that interpretation of the figures.
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Recommendation (15) suggests the encouragement of schemes for training labour, up-grading semi-skilled workers and the dilution of skilled workers.
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There is no longer a need for a pool of unskilled and semi-skilled workers who can be called upon at times of peak forestry activity.
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