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semi-skilled en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of semiskilled.
    • A disruption caused the first semi-skilled factory job to end in 145 cases (three per cent of the total sample) and as a result many of these workers experienced either a semi-skilled factory mobile profile or downward occupational mobility if they were not so lucky. 1987, Shirley Dex -, Women’s Occupational Mobility: A Lifetime Perspective, →ISBN, page 54:
    • "We invested £53m in maintenance alone in 2021, which directly supports skilled and semi-skilled jobs across the UK. 2023 April 19, “Network News: Angel Trains refutes union's claims over 'scandalous' dividend payments”, in RAIL, number 981, page 15:
    • This includes all tasks that he could now undertake: within his particular trade if he is a tradesman; or within some range, whether limited or very wide, of semi-skilled tasks if he is a process worker; or within the range of labouring tasks (and possibly semi-skilled tasks) if he is a labourer 2017, Paul Lafitte, Social Structure and Personality in the Factory, →ISBN, page 78:

Forms

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more semi-skilled Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most semi-skilled Degree=Sup lexicographic