"deskill" meaning in All languages combined

See deskill on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: deskills [present, singular, third-person], deskilling [participle, present], deskilled [participle, past], deskilled [past]
Etymology: de- + skill Etymology templates: {{af|en|de-|skill}} de- + skill Head templates: {{en-verb}} deskill (third-person singular simple present deskills, present participle deskilling, simple past and past participle deskilled)
  1. (transitive) To redesign (a job) so that less skill is required to carry it out, for example through the introduction of new technology. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-deskill-en-verb-AMq72jO8 Categories (other): English terms prefixed with de- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 47 53
  2. (transitive) To change the role of (workers) so that they are no longer required or able to use the skills that they have acquired. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-deskill-en-verb-d3JqvIEs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with de- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 61 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 47 53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: de-skill Related terms: reskill, upskill

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for deskill meaning in All languages combined (3.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de-",
        "3": "skill"
      },
      "expansion": "de- + skill",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "de- + skill",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deskills",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deskilling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deskilled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deskilled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "deskill (third-person singular simple present deskills, present participle deskilling, simple past and past participle deskilled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "reskill"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "upskill"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with de-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The impact on workers is fairly obvious but I believe that managerial jobs have also been deskilled by the adoption of controlling systems and procedures.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985 August 4, Elizabeth Kolbert, quoting Deborah Meyer, “Computers Ease the Load — At Times”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "“Word processors are wonderful to make us more productive, but employers tend to take this to an extreme,” she said. “Some secretaries are very pleased with automation, but it's the larger number whose jobs are deskilled, made more redundant.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 April 21, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, quoting Shoshana Zuboff, “When Your Colleague Is a Machine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "But the data she presents “suggest a more complicated reality.” Even where “control or deskilling has been the intent of managerial choices with respect to new information technology, managers themselves are also captive to a wide range of impulses and pressures.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, chapter 5, in After the Fact?, Repeater",
          "text": "[Henrik] Örnebring concluded that there had not been a de-skilling of journalism so much as a more complex process of re-skilling, and this is hard to dispute in relation to the use of technology to undertake a broader range of journalistic duties in the newsroom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To redesign (a job) so that less skill is required to carry it out, for example through the introduction of new technology."
      ],
      "id": "en-deskill-en-verb-AMq72jO8",
      "links": [
        [
          "job",
          "job"
        ],
        [
          "skill",
          "skill"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To redesign (a job) so that less skill is required to carry it out, for example through the introduction of new technology."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "39 61",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with de-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Tragic, too, is the gradual deskilling of teachers, loss of excitement about the profession, and loss of gifted teachers to other pursuits.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983 June 12, Bruce Nussbaum, “‘Reskilling’ Workers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "In this transition from an economy built on energy-guzzling heavy industry toward a 21st century society of energy-sipping high technology, millions of Americans and Europeans are being “deskilled.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To change the role of (workers) so that they are no longer required or able to use the skills that they have acquired."
      ],
      "id": "en-deskill-en-verb-d3JqvIEs",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To change the role of (workers) so that they are no longer required or able to use the skills that they have acquired."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "de-skill"
    }
  ],
  "word": "deskill"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms prefixed with de-",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de-",
        "3": "skill"
      },
      "expansion": "de- + skill",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "de- + skill",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deskills",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deskilling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deskilled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deskilled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "deskill (third-person singular simple present deskills, present participle deskilling, simple past and past participle deskilled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "reskill"
    },
    {
      "word": "upskill"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The impact on workers is fairly obvious but I believe that managerial jobs have also been deskilled by the adoption of controlling systems and procedures.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985 August 4, Elizabeth Kolbert, quoting Deborah Meyer, “Computers Ease the Load — At Times”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "“Word processors are wonderful to make us more productive, but employers tend to take this to an extreme,” she said. “Some secretaries are very pleased with automation, but it's the larger number whose jobs are deskilled, made more redundant.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 April 21, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, quoting Shoshana Zuboff, “When Your Colleague Is a Machine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "But the data she presents “suggest a more complicated reality.” Even where “control or deskilling has been the intent of managerial choices with respect to new information technology, managers themselves are also captive to a wide range of impulses and pressures.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, chapter 5, in After the Fact?, Repeater",
          "text": "[Henrik] Örnebring concluded that there had not been a de-skilling of journalism so much as a more complex process of re-skilling, and this is hard to dispute in relation to the use of technology to undertake a broader range of journalistic duties in the newsroom.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To redesign (a job) so that less skill is required to carry it out, for example through the introduction of new technology."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "job",
          "job"
        ],
        [
          "skill",
          "skill"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To redesign (a job) so that less skill is required to carry it out, for example through the introduction of new technology."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Tragic, too, is the gradual deskilling of teachers, loss of excitement about the profession, and loss of gifted teachers to other pursuits.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983 June 12, Bruce Nussbaum, “‘Reskilling’ Workers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "In this transition from an economy built on energy-guzzling heavy industry toward a 21st century society of energy-sipping high technology, millions of Americans and Europeans are being “deskilled.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To change the role of (workers) so that they are no longer required or able to use the skills that they have acquired."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To change the role of (workers) so that they are no longer required or able to use the skills that they have acquired."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "de-skill"
    }
  ],
  "word": "deskill"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.