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KRAHFT/krɑːft/

A craft is a skilled trade of making things, or skill in doing something: a craft apprenticeship; the craft of writing. Art is wider; trade is a close twin for jobs. College: a craft apprenticeship in joinery.

Meaning

A skilled trade of making things; also skill in doing something.

Examples

• “The college still offers a craft apprenticeship in joinery.”
• “Craft beer on the high street is the commercial sense, not the joinery course.”

Good to know

a craft; a craft apprenticeship. Close: a trade. Verb: craft (to make skilfully). FE / Made in Britain. Countable trades; uncountable skill.

Near in meaning

trade

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