deskill
verb (used with object)
to remove any need of skill, judgment, or initiative in.
deskilling
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a word derived from
deskill.
Example Sentences
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We are deskilling and dumbing down on a demoralizing diet of digital slop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
We need to avoid deskilling and demoralising workers and destroying businesses that will not be reborn easily.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2020
The risk is that outsourcing emotional labor to robots and machines could lead to mass emotional deskilling on the part of people.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2016
As machines took over labor from humans and people increasingly found themselves confined to the same repetitive step, the process of deskilling began.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
The operations of these mills irrevocably changed the nature of work by deskilling tasks, breaking down the process of production to its most basic, elemental parts.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
