0 a worker trained with special skills, especially in science or engineering: --
a laboratory technician
1 a worker trained with special skills or knowledge, esp. in how to operate machines or equipment used in science: --
a laboratory technician
an X-ray technician
2 someone whose job is to make sure that machines and equipment work correctly, and to repair them if necessary: --
a lab/computer/electrical technician
The working class is the most left-wing group, and it appears that routine non-manual workers are to the right of the foremen and technicians.
In these senses, they are quite committed to the existing economic system, much more so than the technicians.
Pharmacy technicians were responsible for all morphine preparation, and it is therefore their wage costs that are used in the costing exercise.
There was also a new pay-scale that discriminated between scientists and technicians.
The article investigates experiences of control and identity through interviews with both flautists and sound technicians.
However, there was a strong interest among the technicians to explore this new domain.
Composers who wish to include interactive computer sound in their music, but are not technicians, will have a notation method.
Direct savings accrue from reduced costs in the mold room and reduced coverage for sick time resulting from strain injuries to radiation therapists (radiotherapy technicians).
