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trainee

trainee

50 2.4
A person learning the skills needed for a job
  • noun
  • /treɪˈni/
translation icon : aprendiz
  • The elements are: the task characteristics, the training process, the trainee, the outcome, and the environment.
  • training for trainees
  • supervisors and trainees
  • supervision of trainees

I I was a trainee confectioner for three years.

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Examples

  • I didn't know this, but before, before you were acting, you were a trainee teacher.

  • Crawford is watching a group of trainees on the firing range as Clarice joins him.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • This is my trainee, Mitch.

  • The workplace environment includes conditions under which a trainee normally works or will work after the training.

    Academic text (1999)
  • And when I left university, I became a news trainee at the Times and that was my first kind of proper job in journalism.

  • I was promoted from clerk to reporter trainee, covering the entertainment beat.

  • You see, we've a new trainee starting very shortly and I thought that perhaps I could teach her the right way and the wrong way to sell property.

  • The program targets a particularly challenging population as trainees actually contribute to ongoing classroom activities.

    Academic text (1991)
  • I'm a trainee hairdresser.

  • As a new trainee in the hospital, she was eager to learn from her experienced colleagues.

Synonyms

apprentice
vstrainee
97 3.4

A person who learns a trade by working for a skilled worker

is taught job skills but not necessarily through workplace employment
learner
vstrainee
67 1.0

A person who gains knowledge and skills from study, practice or teaching

is learning specific skills needed for a particular job or activity
novice
vstrainee
46 3.4

A person new to an activity who has little experience

is being taught the necessary skills for a job rather than merely inexperienced
mentoree
vstrainee
1 7.8

A person who gets help from a more experienced person at work or school

is trained for a job through structured instruction rather than individual mentor support

Antonyms

201 1.3

A person who teaches skills, for example in sports or with animals

How Trained

expert
3 3.5
qualified
304 3.0
trainee
50 2.4
apprentice
97 3.4
beginner
81 1.0

Surface Forms

trainee singular
trainees plural

Morphology

trainee = train (transparent) = train + ee

The formation 'train' + '-ee' yields a person who is being trained, a meaning that B1 learners can readily infer from the base and the common suffix '-ee'.

Etymology

Trainee comes from the verb train and the French ending -ee, which means 'one who receives'. So a trainee is 'one who is trained', a person learning the skills of a job.