technician

noun

Definition of techniciannext
as in specialist
a person whose job requires specialized knowledge of the practical use of machines or science She's studying to become an ultrasound technician.

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Recent Examples of technician Students worked directly with plumbers, HVAC technicians, electricians and other industry professionals to refinish the structure over time. — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026 The venture trains professional women home repair technicians, positioning skilled manual work as a viable path to financial independence. — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026 Human technicians can wander into a data center facility to swap out parts, but servicing satellites would be infinitely more complex. — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 24 Sep. 2026 Instead, an executive at the technician’s company, Pearce Services, called investigators and said the worker saw one solar panel melted and another on fire in the early moments of the blaze before Lineage knew what was happening. — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for technician
Recent Examples of Synonyms for technician
  1. specialist
  2. consultant
  3. professional
  4. expert
  5. operator
Noun
  • DeFoe has very limited experience fishing at Lake Hamilton, but his partner Gill is one of the most formidable specialists with forward-facing sonar.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026
  • But his facility, Martyr Mohamed Hayel hospital, lacks intensive care specialists and doesn’t have enough generators to keep all departments running if the power goes out.
    — Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of specialist
Noun
  • Joining them is script editor, story consultant and executive producer Jack Casey (Wren Boys, White Girl), who is also a story consultant on Black Church Bay, which screens at this year’s LFF.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026
  • As coach and consultant Deborah Grayson Riegel observes on the Harvard Business Review podcast, effective delegation is associated with greater productivity.
    — Carol Geffner, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of consultant
Noun
  • The series will be in focus during one of the pitching events that will showcase the projects to producers, buyers, investors and other audiovisual industry professionals.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Sep. 2026
  • In the middle of the waiting area, a young woman wearing a beige overcoat and a handsome leather backpack, looking like one of the thousands of professionals in the station, stood with Lojo’s colleagues.
    — Anand Giridharadas, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of professional
Noun
  • Existing law also blocks most states from systematically purging voters from their rolls within 90 days of an election, said David Becker, an election law expert who leads the Center for Election Innovation and Research.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Laboratory officials declined to provide details, citing privacy concerns, but said experts from India, China, the United States, Singapore and South Korea were assisting with the work.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of expert
Noun
  • The system uses inertial sensors to capture an operator’s physical movements and Unreal Engine to transfer them in real time to a CGI character.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026
  • That shift from operator to value creator is one every functional leader must make on the way to broader executive scope.
    — Mike Trkay, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
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“Technician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/technician. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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