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technician

 noun
     
tech‧ni‧cian [countable]
1 someone whose job is to check equipment or machines and make sure that they are working properly:
a laboratory technician
a hospital technician
2 someone who is very good at the skills of a particular sport, music, art etc:
Whether he was a great artist or not, Dali was a superb technician.
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