unskilled work

collocation in English

meaningsofunskilledandwork

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unskilled
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈskɪld/us
/ʌnˈskɪld/
Unskilled people have no particular work skills, and unskilled work does not need any ...
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work
noun
uk
/wɜːk/us
/wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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(Definition ofunskilledandworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They mostly didunskilledworkin local factories, though two were nurses and one a student teacher.
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What evidence there is suggests that most women were employed in domestic service and the textile trades in semi-skilled andunskilledwork.
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Such payments to skilled craftsmen by the landlord were common at the time, while tenants providedunskilledwork.
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General labour market policies have a profound effect on the sector, because it is characterised by low waged andunskilledwork.
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It is no condemnation of those people, but that is semi-skilled orunskilledwork.
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I am not satisfied that an increase in the limit of £250 is justified at present, since crofters normally undertake theunskilledworkthemselves.
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They come in to do labouring andunskilledworkof all kinds.
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The men were placed in a great variety of occupations, but chiefly in labouring orunskilledworkof one kind or another.
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The only thing for which its workers can be trained is forunskilledwork.
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We should recognise that the demand for purelyunskilledworkwill decrease and that the demands for various kinds of skill will increase.
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It must not be supposed it isunskilledwork.
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Men set out aimlessly on the road in the hope of picking up some temporary andunskilledwork.
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First, we need more craft apprenticeships, then we need more office work, and, thirdly, we needunskilledworkthat is suitable for the less bright.
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There were 66 vacancies for men and 14 for women forunskilledwork, but these vacancies were not analysed by age groups.
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But there is little doubt there will be a shortage, a contraction in the amount ofunskilledworkto be done.
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However, there will be less and lessunskilledworkin this country.
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The workers who do theunskilledwork, which is often the dirty work, are the people we are talking about mostly.
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Admittedly, more of them are for skilled than forunskilledwork.
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Navvying work is sometimes spoken of as beingunskilledwork, but the contrary is the case.
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Up to 1990, he was in regular employment, either in sheltered or semi-sheltered accommodation, or in the private sector doingunskilledwork.
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