trainee

Definition

Examples

Each trainee will work with an experienced employee for two weeks.

Word Family

Synonyms

• internan advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)
• apprenticeworks for an expert to learn a trade
• learnersomeone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

Collocations

• Easy management trainee
  describing management trainee (the act of managing something)
• Medium mentor a probationary trainee
  to mentor a probationary trainee, meaning to serve as a teacher or trusted counselor
• Hard rigorous evaluation of trainee competencies
  describing rigorous evaluation of trainee competencies (rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard)
• Very Hard transform an inept trainee into a formidable operative
  to transform an inept trainee into a formidable operative, meaning to subject to a mathematical transformation