skilled worker


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Noun1.skilled worker - a worker who has acquired special skillsskilled worker - a worker who has acquired special skills
worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"
oceanaut, aquanaut - a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research
armorer, armourer - a worker skilled in making armor or arms; "a sword made by a famous English armorer"
aeronaut, airman, aviator, flier, flyer - someone who operates an aircraft
bread maker, baker - someone who bakes bread or cake
balloonist - someone who flies a balloon
slaughterer, butcher - a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
calligrapher, calligraphist - someone skilled in penmanship
minter, moneyer, coiner - a skilled worker who coins or stamps money
cook - someone who cooks food
artisan, journeyman, artificer, craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
crew member, crewman - a member of a flight crew
cutter - someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
dental hygienist - someone trained to provide preventive dental service (cleaning teeth or taking x-rays)
draftsman, draftsperson, draughtsman - a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines
dyer - someone whose job is to dye cloth
editor, editor in chief - a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)
electrician, linesman, lineman - a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines
engraver - a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching
aesthetician, esthetician - a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.)
fisher, fisherman - someone whose occupation is catching fish
founder - a worker who makes metal castings
framer - someone who makes frames (as for pictures)
fumigator - someone whose job is to fumigate
galvaniser, galvanizer - a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc
gilder - someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt
grip - worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made
harpooneer, harpooner - someone who launches harpoons
hunter, huntsman - someone who hunts game
indexer - someone who provides an index
laminator - a person who makes laminates (especially plastic laminates)
lobsterman - a person whose occupation is catching lobsters
lockkeeper, lockman, lockmaster - a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal)
mender, repairer, fixer - a skilled worker who mends or repairs things
funeral director, funeral undertaker, mortician, undertaker - one whose business is the management of funerals
mounter - a skilled worker who mounts pictures or jewels etc.
functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
oilman - a worker who produces or sells petroleum
lens maker, optician - a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision
painter - a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
perfecter - a skilled worker who perfects something; "although not the inventor he must be recognized as the perfecter of this technique"
phlebotomist - someone who practices phlebotomy
plaiter - someone who plaits (hair or fabric etc.)
plasterer - a worker skilled in applying plaster
plater - a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold)
power worker, power-station worker - a worker at a power station
pressman, printer - someone whose occupation is printing
projectionist - the person who operates the projector in a movie house
refiner - one whose work is to refine a specific thing; "he was a sugar refiner"
preserver, refinisher, renovator, restorer - a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
riveter, rivetter - a worker who inserts and hammers rivets
router - a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery
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Translations

skilled worker

nFacharbeiter(in) m(f)
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According to DOLE, under the guidelines on the deployment of foreign workers to Japan in pursuant to the labor cooperation pact signed on March 19, the 'specified skilled workers' will be deployed under two identified occupational categories: Specified Skilled Worker I and II.
According to the decision, the fee for the transfer permit and the use of skilled workers from one establishment to another establishment owned by the same owner or partner, as well as transfer fee and the use of skilled worker from one establishment to another, decreased by 50 percent.
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Japan employed under the country's new specified skilled worker residency law will receive better pay, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) secretary Silvestre Bello III said.
On March 25, the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Cooperation on a Basic Framework for Information Partnership for Proper Operation of the System pertaining to Foreign Human Resources with the Status of Residence of 'Specified Skilled Worker' was held in Kathmandu between Masamichi Saigo, Ambassador of Japan and Ram Prasad Ghimire, Officiating Secretary of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security of the Government of Nepal.
The decline in the percent of accepted applications suggests that the skilled worker drought isn't simply due to the atmosphere of racial exclusion created by Trump's rhetoric, or to the recent increase in hate crimes.
The present discounted value of the unemployed skilled worker of origin J - N, I is modified to
"And a skilled worker is any worker who has special skills and has completed college," the official of Muscat Municipality said.
Coming to Canada as a federal skilled worker has traditionally been the most popular route of entry to the country.
Given the different endowments of skilled labor, Equation 29 is more likely to arise when condition 14 holds but less likely to hold as the difference in skilled worker endowments becomes larger.
The headline said, "Skilled Worker Shortage Dims Growth Picture." It wasn't from a current newspaper.