| 释义 |
upˈskill, v.
[up- 4.]
trans. = *reskill v.; also, to increase or enhance the skills required in (a job).
1983Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 6/2 The Social Democrats committed themselves yesterday to a package of major educational reforms aimed at ‘upskilling’ Britain and bringing the education system into line with the needs of the economy. 1985N.Y. Times 7 Oct. a26/4 Mrs. Nussbaum..said technology might create a more ‘polarized office’, in which clerical jobs are ‘upskilled and downgraded’. 1986Times 22 Mar. 4/3 It was of paramount importance to ‘upskill’ the youth of this country and seize the opportunities of a new technological era.
Hence upˈskilling vbl. n.
1983Spectator 11 June 8/3 She talked about ‘upskilling and upgrading’ and about education being a ‘life-long process’. 1989N.Y. Times 25 Sept. b6/3 The ‘upskilling’ of American jobs, meaning a change from learning based on observation to learning acquired through symbols, both verbal and mathematical. |