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skills shortage

skills shortage noun: a lack of specialized workforce.

Noun

skills shortage (plural skills shortages)

  1. A lack of specialized workforce.
    • Her decision reflects what seems to be an accelerating trend here. Professionals, often young and in middle management but increasingly also senior executives, are leaving, adding to a skills shortage that is already acute.2008 November 1, “South African emigration leads to skills shortage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • Think about what we would expect to find if there really were a skills shortage. Above all, we should see workers with the right skills doing well, while only those without those skills are doing badly. We don’t.2014 March 31, Paul Krugman, “Jobs and Skills and Zombies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of skills shortage

pluralskills shortages

Questions about skills shortage

What does skills shortage mean?
Skills shortage means a lack of specialized workforce.
What part of speech is skills shortage?
Skills shortage is a noun.
What is the plural of skills shortage?
The plural of skills shortage is skills shortages.

Words near skills shortage in the dictionary

  1. skillman
  2. Skillmans
  3. skillmen
  4. skillo
  5. skills
  6. skills shortage
  7. skills shortages
  8. skills up
  9. skillset
  10. skillsets
  11. skillshare

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