Synonym: amateurish, green, inexperienced, raw, untalented, untrained. Antonym: skilled. Similar words: unskilled labor, unskillful, skilled, skilled labor, unskilful, skillet, killed, skill. Meaning: adj. 1. not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency 2. lacking professional skill or expertise 3. not doing a good job.
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31 Various Volunteers spent periods of from three to twelve months doing unskilled pick and shovel work, constructing school buildings.
32 They are the most underpaid, the most under-employed, the most unskilled and the least organized in trade unions.
33 That is, where unskilled labour prevailed there was chronic want and deprivation.
34 Institutionalized racism pervaded British society, and immigrant workers found themselves in unskilled jobs and with low social status.
35 The report shows that a disproportionate number of black women do unskilled, low-paid work.
36 If they are wanted at all they are probably wanted in large numbers and to be made in a hurry by unskilled labour.
37 It was an industrial structure weighted heavily toward the use of semiskilled and unskilled labour.
38 For semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers, the proportion of members experiencing unemployment almost doubled: from 18 to 32 percent.
39 All of the traditional advantages enjoyed by the unskilled of the first world are gone, or are eroding very rapidly.
40 At about the same time, in 1884, the trade union movement began to reach poorer, unskilled workers.
41 Basically, these are jobs for the unskilled, including the new immigrants coming in.
42 Shoeing a horse is a skilled job, and no unskilled person should try it.
43 The union quest to preserve the rights and prerogatives of unskilled labor are doomed to failure.
44 The hallmark of the industrial revolution has been the slow replacement of the unskilled by the skilled.
45 They may require elements of microbiology and chemical science as well as organisational ability but they are still generally regarded as unskilled work.
46 For low-skilled or unskilled workers, Reich notes, technology is taking away jobs.
47 Questions were asked: Why do most women work in unskilled, low-paid jobs?
48 This is particularly so for those involved in repetitive, unskilled manual labour.
49 The programme would be labour-intensive and give work to skilled craftsmen as well as apprenticeships to unskilled school-leavers.
50 By 1990 only 16 percent of women in professional households smoked, compared with 38 percent of women in unskilled manual homes.
51 Semi-skilled and unskilled workers were more willing to relocate than management and professional staff.
52 Among the most obvious categories here are the unskilled, the young, black people and those made redundant from manufacturing.
53 For every unskilled job we advertise, we get a hundred applicants - more than a hundred. Sentencedict.com
54 Professional men, for example, see half as many friends again as unskilled workers.
55 Social class differences are most apparent at the extremes, i.e. between professional and unskilled occupational groups.
56 Good community care services work best where skilled professionals work comfortably hand-in-hand with unskilled staff, families, neighbours and voluntary organizations.
57 The working-class occupations may be divided into skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled strata, and life-chances broadly differ according to the skill level.
58 Here in these slum streets existed an army of the unskilled, all trying to wrest a living anyway they could.
59 As they close down, they lay off more unskilled than skilled workers, since that is what they employ.
60 The new jobs would largely be unskilled and a high proportion would be in inner city areas.
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