basic skill
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbasicandskill
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basic
adjective
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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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 ofbasicandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For example, training in thebasicskillof maintaining oneself out in the wild is a thing that really gets young boys.
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Those evasive skills are often at as high a level as thebasicskillwould have been if it had been acquired.
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Most bandsmen do, however, receive medical training andbasicskillat arms training for an operational capability in the event of mobilisation.
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Sixty per cent of prisoners have literacy and numeracy skills at or below the lowestbasicskilllevel.
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For many adult learners, it is also a way back into learning, and it plays an important role in delivering access tobasicskillopportunities.
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It is important to master thatbasicskillif one is to access the rest of the curriculum and to realise one's potential.
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Does he agree that more resources must be targeted for physical education, or thatbasicskillwill not be learnt by children in primary schools?
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Basicskilltutors with specialist qualifications to teach such identified adults must be put in place.
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They are not adequate for those withbasicskillneeds.
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In my own subject, thebasicskillof the historian is being able to compare two contradictory accounts of the same event, or preferably more.
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He had acquired thebasicskillwhen he was at school when he had been taught how to play the guitar.
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It is abasicskillthat most people can achieve with very little training.
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However, the guy with thebasicskillwho wants to improve it in my coal-mining area cannot do so, because there is nowhere for him to improve it.
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Is he aware that as a result they could spend much of their adult life drifting from job to job because they have nobasicskill?
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It has so far benefited over 25,000 people in the workplace through a wide variety of projects ranging from tacklingbasicskillneeds to advanced professional development.
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One would like to see more young trainees coming forward, but what it amounts to is more advertising and getting them to come forward to learn abasicskill.
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This has happened because we have allowed thebasicskillof this kind of industry, the skill of the creative people within it, to be destroyed.
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Once you can reliably complete orange courses, you have learned thebasicskill.
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Theirbasicskillwas the art of reading and writing.
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Numerous other games and contests involve some element of anagram formation as abasicskill.
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