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trainee

nounattested in dialogue

  • //tɹeɪˈni//
  • /[tʃɹeɪˈni]/

Someone who is still in the process of being formally trained in a workplace.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who is still in the process of being formally trained in a workplace.

  2. 2

    A juvenile inmate being trained and (re)educated in a reformatory school.

Etymology

From train + -ee.

Forms

plural
trainees
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).