as in student
a person who is being trained for a job
on-the-job trainees Not all of the management trainees will be hired.
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Fleischman started his representation career in 2015 as an agent trainee at UTA.
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2025
Graduate school admissions are being drastically cut due to uncertainty and shrinking budgets, effectively halting the recruitment and training of the next generation of innovators, as our most promising trainees look for opportunities overseas.
—Dr. Ardem Patapoutian, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
Punch, an extraordinary study of a young man who landed a fatal blow on James Hodgkinson, a trainee paramedic during an unprovoked attack, and the consequences thereafter, will become that rare instance of productions of the same play opening simultaneously in the West End and on Broadway.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
As of this year, Norfolk Southern trainees also visit the company’s gleaming Midtown headquarters in an effort to empower them, Myers said.
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2025
Graduate school admissions are being drastically cut due to uncertainty and shrinking budgets, effectively halting the recruitment and training of the next generation of innovators, as our most promising trainees look for opportunities overseas.
—Dr. Ardem Patapoutian, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
Punch, an extraordinary study of a young man who landed a fatal blow on James Hodgkinson, a trainee paramedic during an unprovoked attack, and the consequences thereafter, will become that rare instance of productions of the same play opening simultaneously in the West End and on Broadway.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
As of this year, Norfolk Southern trainees also visit the company’s gleaming Midtown headquarters in an effort to empower them, Myers said.
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Trainee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trainee. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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