skilled
adjective
having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
underskilled
-
a word derived from
skilled.
Example Sentences
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I think we have a lot of underskilled workers, what I would call undereducated workers in our county.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2015
Matt King must do that even though he’s underskilled as a parent and unaware of the value of acknowledging and respecting the feelings of his 17- and 10-year old daughters.
From Time ● Nov. 22, 2011
At the other end is a willing but underskilled group that is seeing its prospects undermined by workers in countries like China in low-end manufacturing and by a skills mismatch in emerging industries.
From Time ● Jan. 6, 2011
"But it will take a while to filter down to unemployed workers" who are underskilled and undereducated and have worked in fields where jobs are scarce.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2011
Automated elevators, automated stockroom machinery, automated steel mills and countless other devices are turning the underskilled and the undereducated into unemployables. and sending their more gifted fellows job hunting.
From Time Magazine Archive
