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deskill

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Definitions

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

Word origin

From de- + skill.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Tragic, too, is the gradual deskilling of teachers, loss of excitement about the profession, and loss of gifted teachers to other pursuits.
  • 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.”

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