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Upskilling is teaching workers new skills, or better ones, so they can do their jobs well — often because the job itself is changing. A factory buys new machines, so the staff need training: that is upskilling. A company brings in new software, and the office workers take courses: upskilling. It is used both for what the employer does to the workers and for what a worker does for themselves ('I spent the year upskilling'). This word belongs to a particular world — human resources, government reports, job advertisements, news stories about technology and work. It came into heavy use as computers and now AI changed what jobs require. You will see it constantly in that kind of writing and much less often in ordinary conversation between friends. Here is the honest part, and your students should hear it. The word sounds positive and hopeful, and employers choose it for exactly that reason. It is a kinder word than the situation often is: sometimes 'we are upskilling our staff' really means 'these people's old jobs are disappearing.' So the word is true, but it is also a little polished. There is a related word, 'reskilling', which means training someone for a genuinely different job, not just a better version of the same one. The two overlap and people mix them up freely.
技能提升、職能再造(員工培訓學新技能)。政府和企業文件裡常見
組成up- (to a higher level) + skill + -ing. A modern workplace coinage; the noun form is the one you see most.
同家族的字
- reskillingthe same modern training vocabulary — re-, learning skills again for a different job
- skilledthe same noun 'skill' with a different ending
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。