skill set

skill set

See also: skillset

English

Alternative forms

• skillset

Noun

skill set (plural skill sets)

1. A set of skills. [from 1975]
2. The skills needed to accomplish a specified task or perform a given function.
   • 2020 July 1, Industry Insider, “An overnight success?”, in Rail, page 61:

     But after the Scottish Parliament gained reponsibility for the ScotRail franchise, it decided in 2015 to separate what is now known as the Caledonian Sleeper services from the overall contract in the belief that a different skill set was needed to promote the trains.

Hypernyms

• set

Translations

set of skills

Chinese: Mandarin: 技能組合／技能组合 (jìnéng zǔhé) Finnish: taidot (fi) pl German: Fähigkeiten (de) f pl Irish: riar scileanna m Russian: набо́р на́выков (nabór návykov)

skills needed to accomplish a specified task

Chinese: Mandarin: 技能 (zh) (jìnéng) Finnish: tarvittavat taidot pl Russian: please add this translation if you can

References

• a set of skills, a skill set, a skillset at Google Ngram Viewer
• “skill set”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• kiltless, skillest, skillets