"semi-skilled" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more semi-skilled",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most semi-skilled",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "semi-skilled (comparative more semi-skilled, superlative most semi-skilled)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "semiskilled"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Shirley Dex -, Women’s Occupational Mobility: A Lifetime Perspective, page 54",
          "text": "A disruption caused the first semi-skilled factory job to end in 145 cases (three per cent of the total sample) and as a result many of these workers experienced either a semi-skilled factory mobile profile or downward occupational mobility if they were not so lucky.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Paul Lafitte, Social Structure and Personality in the Factory, page 78",
          "text": "This includes all tasks that he could now undertake: within his particular trade if he is a tradesman; or within some range, whether limited or very wide, of semi-skilled tasks if he is a process worker; or within the range of labouring tasks (and possibly semi-skilled tasks) if he is a labourer",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 April 19, “Network News: Angel Trains refutes union's claims over 'scandalous' dividend payments”, in RAIL, number 981, page 15",
          "text": "\"We invested £53m in maintenance alone in 2021, which directly supports skilled and semi-skilled jobs across the UK.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of semiskilled"
      ],
      "id": "en-semi-skilled-en-adj-J~Z00DD~",
      "links": [
        [
          "semiskilled",
          "semiskilled#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "semi-skilled"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more semi-skilled",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most semi-skilled",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "semi-skilled (comparative more semi-skilled, superlative most semi-skilled)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "semiskilled"
        }
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Shirley Dex -, Women’s Occupational Mobility: A Lifetime Perspective, page 54",
          "text": "A disruption caused the first semi-skilled factory job to end in 145 cases (three per cent of the total sample) and as a result many of these workers experienced either a semi-skilled factory mobile profile or downward occupational mobility if they were not so lucky.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Paul Lafitte, Social Structure and Personality in the Factory, page 78",
          "text": "This includes all tasks that he could now undertake: within his particular trade if he is a tradesman; or within some range, whether limited or very wide, of semi-skilled tasks if he is a process worker; or within the range of labouring tasks (and possibly semi-skilled tasks) if he is a labourer",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 April 19, “Network News: Angel Trains refutes union's claims over 'scandalous' dividend payments”, in RAIL, number 981, page 15",
          "text": "\"We invested £53m in maintenance alone in 2021, which directly supports skilled and semi-skilled jobs across the UK.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of semiskilled"
      ],
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          "semiskilled",
          "semiskilled#English"
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      ],
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  "word": "semi-skilled"
}