technician
Americannoun
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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
Etymology
Origin of technician
Example Sentences
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Norway and Sweden arrived at races with double-decker wax trucks and fleets of expert technicians.
Among those jobs: 220 information technology support technicians, 33 parent education support assistants, 23 gardeners, five area bus supervisors, five stock clerks and three interpreters.
From Los Angeles Times
One broadcaster from Norway, amid peals of laughter, described the chief ice technician as "scooting" down the sheet.
From BBC
But time travel is an imperfect science, and the technician overseeing the process is delirious from a virulent new strain of flu, so Kivrin is accidentally dropped into 1348, the year of the Black Death.
The 41-year-old hydraulic technician has spent hours riding her purple bicycle around this city in recent weeks, looking for hints of where Nancy Guthrie may have gone.
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