skilled

IPA: skˈɪɫd

Examples of "skilled" in Sentences

He was skilled engineer.
He is tactful and skilled.
He was a skilled pugilist.
"They think he's not skilled from a sewing standpoint, but his forte is the draping," Garcia explains.
The idea is to attract and retain skilled technocrats in a country that for years lacked a functioning central government.
Stitched soles are expensive to manufacture, but in skilled hands can be resoled almost in perpetuity, until the uppers finally yield and surrender.
The premise that protecting our climate and creating a boom in skilled alternative energy jobs is somehow a net loss for California is not a credible argument.
• Enables employers to keep the workforce intact and retain skilled employees, greatly reducing the costs of recruitment and training when the economy recovers.
It's not like skilled labor, as my husban 'says; though to see what them young ones has to go through, it's labor enough an' to spare; an 'if it ain't just what they call skilled, it's what no one out o' the trade can make a mark at.
I know of no problem that faces us more at the present time than the one of marketing the product that we grow in competition with the tremendously increasing imports from abroad, brought in from countries where labor costs anywhere from twenty to fifty cents a day, and at the highest a dollar a day for what they call skilled labor, most of it twenty to fifty cents, and with freight rates across the Atlantic that amount to less than half of our freight rates, or one-quarter of them.