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inductee

inductee

6 5.6
A person who a group or organization officially makes a member
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈdʌkti/
  • Formal
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  • The astronaut was honored as an inductee into the Space Exploration Hall of Fame this year.
  • inductee into MENC

Examples

  • Recent Hall of Fame inductees Dermontti Dawson and Jack Butler will be present, as will recently retired linebacker Joey Porter.

    Blog text (18)
  • And now it is my pleasure to welcome the new inductees to the long bay country club: Mr. and Mrs. Neil Bucyk...

  • The Chicago Fire announced today that there will be no new Ring of Fire inductee this season.

    Blog text (24)
  • And join me in welcoming our first inductee...

  • Now, these alums set a stage of social justice, which brings me to our inductee, Doctor Michael Drake.

  • In choosing the first 50 inductees, the committee considered over 100 athletes and coaches from the first 25 years.

    Blog text (12)
  • The new inductees brought the total number of ACM Fellows to 726.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Edwin E. Gordon, a recent inductee into the MENC Hall of Fame, is a distinguished lecturer, author, researcher, and teacher.

    Academic text (1999)
  • We're here to acknowledge the greatest ballplayers of all time, those men still gracing our presence who were among the earliest inductees into the Hall of Fame.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • He became the latest inductee of the military academy after completing his training.

Synonyms

recruit
vsinductee
149 3.6

A person who has recently joined a group or the army

is formal admission into a group rather than simply being new
initiate
vsinductee
8 6.9

A person new to a group, often accepted after a ceremony

is admitted by formal official procedures rather than by ritual or ceremony
enlistee
vsinductee
1 7.0

A person who recently joined the armed forces

is used for formal admission in many groups not only military

Antonyms

expellee
  • Formal
7.4

A person forced to leave an organization or job for breaking rules

How Established

veteran
153 4.1
member
1.4
inductee
  • Formal
6 5.6
recruit
149 3.6
nominee
670 3.6
applicant
201 2.7

Surface Forms

inductee singular
inductees plural

Morphology

inductee = induct (transparent) = induct + ee

Formed from the verb 'induct' plus the agent/recipient suffix '-ee', so the meaning 'person who is inducted' is directly derived and predictable.

Etymology

Inductee comes from the parts in- 'into' and duct 'lead', plus the ending -ee. A helpful way to remember it is that an inductee is someone 'led into' a group or job in a formal ceremony, and -ee is the same ending as in employee and trainee, meaning 'the person who receives the action'.