undertrained
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5.7
- adjective
- /ˌʌndərˈtreɪnd/
:
poco capacitado
- Many employees felt the team was undertrained for the complex project ahead.
- undertrained staff
- undertrained and underpaid
Examples
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Next time you want to tell me about how worthless my trade is, try calling for tech support after 5, and get an undertrained, underpaid person to help you.
Blog text (28) -
The process of forging foreign policy under Deng also remained highly centralized, and China's diplomatic corps remained undertrained and inexperienced.
Academic text (2003) -
The municipal police were even worse: chronically undertrained, poorly paid, and often thoroughly corrupt.
Academic text (2012) -
The current security staff is woefully undermanned, undertrained, and inattentive.
Blog text (32) -
Pitchers are hurt because they are undertrained—
Blog text (28) -
But if the ethics education is complicated and time-consuming, then before our efforts can bear fruit in more ethical practices, the overwhelming majority of our workers in the field are likely to have moved on to other jobs, and we will be confronted with a new crop of ethically undertrained workers.
Academic text (1998) -
As the military and their supporters have always done, they make excuses for failures instead of owning up to them and correcting the problems, which in this case appears to be a case of oversold weapon capabilities, lack of any war planning and air tasking, and undertrained air crews.
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Personal, first-class, red-carpet treatment; and kids from poor families and broken homes would be dumped on overworked, undertrained, and underpaid legal-aid types and would get the most perfunctory advice/education.
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The point here is that the TSA has overstepped its bounds and is now not only threatening but downright squashing people's civil liberties by allowing undertrained employees to freely grope passengers as they go through the airport.
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The new recruits were clearly undertrained, struggling to complete even basic tasks.
Synonyms
69
2.8
Not ready for something because the things you need or a plan are missing
31
3.4
Having no teaching or practice to do a task well
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4.0
Not having the needed skill or legal right to do a job
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6.1
Having no tools, help, or skills needed for a task
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2.9
Having no ability or training to do something well
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4.2
Not having enough schooling to learn basic reading and math
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7.8
Having no formal schooling or lessons
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4.7
Does not have enough skills, experience, or education for a job
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4.6
Not having the tools or skills needed for a task
1
6.0
Not experienced at doing something
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8.4
Not having much experience or knowledge about a subject
1
3.9
Not ready enough for an important task or event
Someone who has no training or basic knowledge about a subject
Not trained or practiced in basic routines like marching
Not suitable for a particular job or use
Antonyms
How Trained
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Undertrained starts with under-, meaning 'not enough', as in underfed or underpaid, and ends with trained, from train meaning 'to teach or prepare'. So, undertrained means 'not having enough training', which is why undertrained people often struggle with a job or task.