technician
Americannoun
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technicians
plural
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a person who is trained or skilled in the technicalities of a subject.
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a person who is skilled in the technique of an art, as music or painting.
noun
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a person skilled in mechanical or industrial techniques or in a particular technical field
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a person employed in a laboratory, technical college, or scientific establishment to do practical work
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a person having specific artistic or mechanical skill, esp if lacking original flair or genius
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of technician
Explanation
A technician is someone who has knowledge and training in a technical process. If you are having trouble with your computer network, you might have to call in a network technician to get it sorted out. A technician knows all of the ins and outs (the technicalities) of a specific process. A computer technician knows all about how computers work and how to fix them. Likewise an automotive technician (a mechanic) knows all about cars and how to fix them. Technician is not always associated with technology. If a painter or a musician is trained in various artistic, or musical techniques, he or she can also be called a technician.
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Example Sentences
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BTIG’s chief market technician, Jonathan Krinsky, who provides this chart, thinks so.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
One ambulance technician from Birmingham told the union working in the heat was "vile".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“You get used to it,” says Anna Genis, a medical laboratory technician.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
"At major competitions such as the World Cosplay Summit, people tend to want to wear costumes that involve a certain level of technical complexity and often have several layers," the electrical technician told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Shall I send for a technician to operate it?”
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
Jobs for engineers and technicians building rockets, airplanes and weapons have drawn families from afar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
To meet that launch window, technicians in protective suits test electronics on the spacecraft’s chassis, which resembles a gray metal box with four outstretched arms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
There are 500 fewer sailors on the Ford, in part because fewer technicians are needed to work on the ship’s existing steam equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
At a bustling factory in western India, technicians work around the clock to turn glass into hair-thin fibre-optic strands destined for data centres powering the global artificial intelligence boom.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
The Army’s animal-care technicians are classified 91-T, which in Army jargon becomes 91-Tango.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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