Deskilled

Word DESKILLED
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Definitions and meanings of "Deskilled"

What do we mean by deskilled?

To redesign (a job) so that less skill is required to carry it out, for example through the introduction of new technology.

To change the role of (workers) so that they are no longer required or able to use the skills that they have acquired.

Antonym of skillful. Describes people that have less skill than unskillful. Urban Dictionary

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The word "deskilled" in example sentences

is that there *are*, at least in my Home Province, some measurable ways in which students have been to appropriate a term deskilled in certain areas. ❋ Bardiac (2007)

Men's involvement in pregnancy can make them 'deskilled' at parenting ❋ Unknown (2010)

I felt completely deskilled instead of the reasonably competent person I had been. ❋ Leo Averbach (2011)

Once deskilled, many of those production jobs will likely go overseas as so many other jobs have before. ❋ Nathan Newman (2012)

It's all wrong, how taking your eye off the technology ball for a little while can leave you careering towards a hopelessly deskilled old age; I hope that improvements in interface design mean that this stops happening in the future but I don't bank on it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In this instance, there is an ongoing transformation among faculty in which they become deskilled as intellectuals, reduced to the status of academic entrepreneurs and functioning as unquestioning employees of the military-industrial-academic complex. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We teachers are increasingly deskilled and hammered into interchangeable cogs in a bureaucracy, pressured to reduce teaching to a set of manageable and easily superviseable tasks, and to sum it up on the basis of a single simple-minded metric, to strip it of any moral purpose or intellectual engagement or creative action whatsoever. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This myth results in alienated, intellectually and emotionally deskilled employees and the magical desire for an omnipotent leader. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)

Five years ago I made the switch to "senior school" partly because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life teaching year 8s and also because I felt I was becoming deskilled in computing, a rapidly changing field, which I love. ❋ Bill Kerr (2006)

It said concerning agriculture, blacks were not deskilled during apartheid. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He had said the land transfer programme was hampered by the lack of farming expertise among blacks because they were deskilled under apartheid. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And so once you have that, then the operator job becomes deskilled and now you can take that job and move it to Turkey and Pakistan. ❋ Unknown (2004)

From the early days Porsche had stressed its craftsmanship, and many workers with craft skills migrated to Porsche from the larger firms in reaction to the introduction of deskilled high-speed, mass-production operations with short work cycles. ❋ James P. Womack (2003)

Britain's lack of growth is not an economic debating point or a stick with which to beat George Osborne, any more than our deskilled, demotivated, under-educated non-workforce is simply a blot on the national balance sheet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

How did he missed [the shot] from 5 [yards] away from the goal. What a [deskillful] player ❋ Чай с лемоном (2023)

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