TRAINING Synonyms: 153 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈtrā-niŋ

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as in exercise

something done over and over in order to develop skill a boxer who's been doing a lot of training with his footwork

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as in teaching

the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another entered a convent for religious training

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as in apprenticeship

a period of undergoing practical instruction in one's job or career on-the-job training teacher training

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tenure

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verb

present participle of train

as in conditioning

to bring to a proper or desired state of fitness has been training track-and-field athletes at the school for years

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deconditioning

as in educating

to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field will train the students in good study habits

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as in focusing

to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective train all your thoughts on imagining how you'd score the winning goal in the game

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as in aiming

to point or turn (something) toward a target or goal trained his eyes on the distant bull's-eye

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as in preparing

to make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function he's so experienced that they usually use him to train new recruits

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Recent Examples of training

Noun

Its Graduate Research Fellowship Program, in operation since 1952, is the longest-running federal investment in America’s STEM workforce, and the primary federal funder of graduate and postdoctoral training in the physical sciences, mathematics, computer science, engineering, and political science. —

Gautam Mukunda, Twin Cities, 14 May 2026 If Freeling wins the left tackle job out of training camp, all options should be on the table. —

Mike Kaye updated May 14, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026

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The cost of porting model code and training pipelines off CUDA onto a specialist accelerator is not zero, and the engineering organizations that have absorbed that cost remain rare. —

Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026 Her office became a leader in the practice, training hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the state on how to best go about obtaining the restraining orders. —

Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for training

Recent Examples of Synonyms for training

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In an interview with the website Public Parking, the writer Lucy Ives describes ad-libbing a writing exercise to kill an awkward classroom silence.

— David O’Neill, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
This is an exercise in making a mess and having fun, and then cleaning it up and making meaning, and then doing that all again three times.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026