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skilled
Part of speech: AdjectiveHaving knowledge and ability from experience; trained in some art, craft, or science.
Usage examples "skilled":- It's not like skilled labor, as my husban' says; though to see what them young ones has to go through, it's labor enough an' to spare; an' if it ain't just what they call skilled, it's what no one out o' the trade can make a mark at. - "Weighed and Wanting", George MacDonald.
- But a man doing careful and skilled work- and skilled work it is, at every turn of the hand, as miss can bear witness, while you walked off- he don't care who it is, Major Hockin, he would fight his own brother to maintain it. - "Erema My Father's Sin", R. D. Blackmore.
- Nor is this tendency to strike a plateau confined to clerks in the office and to semi- skilled men in the factory. - "Increasing-Human-Efficiency-in-Business-a-contribution-to-the-psychology-of-business", Scott, Walter Dill.