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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as in students
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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Recent Examples of trainee
Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
By the end of the program, trainees get help to launch companies.
—Kate Okorie, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025
The brand’s Atmos clocks, the self-winding beauties created in 1928, are still ticking in perpetuity, while trainees are studying watchmaking, enameling and miniature painting.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025
Eradicate Hate, a national prevention umbrella group, says one of its trainees helped thwart a school shooting in California last year by reporting a gun in a fellow student’s backpack.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2025
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Morales said his father, who served as a sniper instructor in the early 1960s at secret camps where Cuban exiles and others were trained for missions against Cuba, recognized Oswald as one of his former trainees in the hours following Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas in 1963.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
By the end of the program, trainees get help to launch companies.
—Kate Okorie, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025
The brand’s Atmos clocks, the self-winding beauties created in 1928, are still ticking in perpetuity, while trainees are studying watchmaking, enameling and miniature painting.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025
Eradicate Hate, a national prevention umbrella group, says one of its trainees helped thwart a school shooting in California last year by reporting a gun in a fellow student’s backpack.
—Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Trainee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trainee. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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