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skilled

[ skild ]

adjective

  1. having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
  2. showing, involving, or requiring skill, as certain work.


skilled

/ skɪld /

adjective

  1. possessing or demonstrating accomplishment, skill, or special training
  2. prenominal involving skill or special training

    a skilled job

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of skilled1

First recorded in 1545–55; skill 1 + -ed 3
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Example Sentences

Those skilled in gerrymandering draw district boundaries that ensure decade-long protection for the ruling party.

The system, based on recent inspections, acts as a jumping-off point for choosing a skilled nursing facility, but may not reflect the current situation at a home.

On their own, Adebayo and Robinson are both important, skilled, highly valuable players that every NBA team wishes they had.

Highly-skilled professionals across sectors have a leg up when employers cherry-pick roles to reward.

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Researchers have long argued for a more nimble education system, but universities and even most online courses currently exist for the dominant purpose of ensuring people are adequately skilled to contribute to the economy.

The North Korean hackers have proven to be a persistent adversary, if not the most skilled one.

One that has been repeated in my life so much that I am now skilled in completely erasing it.

However, the enormous benefits that low-skilled immigrants provide more than make up for that relatively small cost.

The issue of low-skilled immigration naturally provokes intense nativist sentiments.

Medicaid is required to cover people in skilled nursing facilities, that is, institutions.

A baronet scientifically skilled in pugilism, enjoyed no pleasure so much as giving gratuitous instructions in his favorite art.

How many in Melbourne injure wealth and brain, I leave to more skilled and morose critics.

A certain gentleman, not well skilled in orthography, requested his friend to send him too monkeys.

Furnished all the brain power anyway, and skilled labor outranks muscle at any time.

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining boats and skilled boatmen, this was a slow and dangerous undertaking.

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