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technician

UK/tɛkˈnɪʃən/US/tɛkˈnɪʃən/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,240 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: technicians

A technician is a skilled worker who looks after equipment. A lab technician, call the technician, a technician's job.

In a laboratory or a theatre they are the people who make the work possible and are named last, and the phrase technician-level is used dismissively by people who could not do it. In sport, calling a player a technician means praising skill over passion.

Bill Branson (Photographer) · Public domain

Definitions of technician

  1. 1nountechnicianA skilled worker who looks after equipment.B1+

    “A technician came to fix the broken photocopier.”

technician is a job.

Where it comes from

From technic + -ian.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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technician in the wild

  • An emergency medical technician (EMT) is a medical professional that provides emergency medical services (EMS).

    Emergency medical technician

  • In a theater production, lighting technicians work under the lighting designer and master electrician.

    Lighting technician

  • In live music, lighting technicians work under the lighting director.

    Lighting technician

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.