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low-skilled

low-skilled adjective: not associated with, or not having, a higher level of skill.

Adjective

low-skilled (not comparable)

  1. (jobs, or the people who do them) Not associated with, or not having, a higher level of skill.
    • Near-synonym: semiskilled
    • Robots may threaten low-skilled workers’ jobs, and AI may threaten high-skilled workers’ jobs, so I guess we'll all have a merry Christmas then!
    Synonyms:
    semiskilled

Synonyms of low-skilled

Origin of low-skilled

From low + skilled.

Questions about low-skilled

What does low-skilled mean?
Low-skilled means not associated with, or not having, a higher level of skill.
What part of speech is low-skilled?
Low-skilled is an adjective.

Words near low-skilled in the dictionary

  1. low-rise
  2. low-rises
  3. low-risk
  4. low-seeded
  5. low-sided
  6. low-skilled
  7. low-slope roof
  8. low-slope roofs
  9. low-sock
  10. low-socks
  11. low-speed

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