unskilled work
Example Sentences
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"Domestic work is considered to be unskilled work but that is not the case in reality. You cannot care for a sick person or cook a meal without being skilled," she adds.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2025
For the many people whom nature or education made fit only for unskilled work, wages are now so low that it doesn't pay to get a job and can actually make you worse off.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2020
In an expensive city like Lagos, this is not much, but it tallies with other forms of unskilled work.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2019
He later earned an associate’s degree at a non-accredited, for-profit school that is now defunct but never landed a job beyond a few months of unskilled work at retail stores.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2015
Fetching water, sweeping, helping in the kitchen, tending the annealing furnace in the shop were the unskilled work the boys did.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
