0 having the abilities needed to do an activity or job well: --
My mother is very skilled at/in dressmaking.
1 people who have been trained for a job --
2 having the special abilities and experience to do a particular job well: --
be skilled at/in doing sth The highly-successful supermarket giant is skilled at obtaining products cheaply.
skilled negotiators/politicians/professionals
skilled employees/staff/workers The temporary visas are available for skilled foreign workers.
3 skilled work needs to be done by someone who has had special training: --
4 people who have been trained to do a particular job: --
We are also indebted to our technical staff for their skilled technical assistance.
Thirdly, what do you do when a skilled writer deliberately blends the standard and the rest, for artistic and communicative purposes?
Visual-feature and response components in a pictureword interference task with beginning and skilled readers.
Their requirements were satisfied by a handful of skilled craftsmen who were household serfs or by imports of luxury items.
Because of its high risk of accidental dislodgment, it requires a weekly dressing change by a skilled nurse.
Cigarette producers were quick to capitalize on these initial oppor tunities and became highly skilled in promoting sales abroad.
Increased phonological similarity of short phrases also differentiates skilled from less skilled readers.
Her skilled autobiographical work communicated fully the painful isolation of monastic life, and the then aesthetically mainstream preference for a life of dreams.
