unskilled worker

collocation in English

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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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worker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈwɜː.kər/us
/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofunskilledandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For instance, in 1946 one specialized female worker earned practically the same as anunskilledworker.
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He should not be regarded as anunskilledworker.
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It is understood and generally accepted that the docker is anunskilledworker.
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He was registered at the unemployment exchange as anunskilledworker.
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They receive, of course, only the pay and conditions of theunskilledworker.
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Unemployment is no longer simply the problem of theunskilledworkerand the labourer.
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Surely it must be agricultural, which is the lowest of theunskilledworker.
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For instance, a milkman, anunskilledworker, can earn far more than in a dockyard.
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It happens on the lowest level of the working class, that of theunskilledworker.
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In other words, they will be getting less than an office junior—a completelyunskilledworker.
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It is that the wage of theunskilledworkerhas come too close to that of the highly skilled worker.
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But it is theunskilledworkerwho is mainly finding a disincentive to work as a result of the increase in the levels of supplementary benefits which are paid.
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It may be said that they are paid large salaries, but in point of fact they do not get paid any larger salaries than the ordinary comparativelyunskilledworker.
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That is a very different thing from saying that anunskilledworkermight be governed by any conciliation boards, or trade boards or trade union agreements.
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It affects the good worker and the bad worker, the skilled worker andunskilledworker, the hard worker and the lazy worker alike.
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If these youngsters are not given a chance to train for a trade, they, too, will join the ranks of the unemployed when theunskilledworkeris least wanted.
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That is, theunskilledworkershall in fact have a minimum wage that is higher than the minimum wage which they desire for the skilled worker in that coalfield.
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That is for the man at the bottom end of the scale, the 19-year-oldunskilledworkerwho does not go down the pit.
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