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trainee|treɪˈniː|
[f. as prec. + -ee.]
A person or (formerly) an animal undergoing training: orig. correlative to trainer. Also attrib. or as adj.
1841Fistiana 112 An early, light, and nutritive supper would greatly benefit the trainee. 1850Fraser's Mag. XLI. 658 The trainers first double up one of his fore legs, which they bind fast with a cord; this they pull, and thus compel the trainee to come down upon his bent knee. 1861Temple Bar Mag. IV. 58 The trainee is rubbed down dry. 1885Daily News 16 Dec. 6/1 Let her..ask whether she could be admitted as a lady pupil, as a trainee. 1927Daily Tel. 8 Feb. 13/7 The number of new trainees is now so small that a workshop smaller than that which we are now using will suffice. 1932Sun (Baltimore) 19 July 15/6 (heading) Trainees at Meade using machine guns. 1942Yank 4 Nov. 11 Basic trainees beat the softball pitching. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 37/1 The majority of nursery training schools do not make any hard-and-fast rule regarding the work which their trainees should take over. 1953Manch. Guardian Weekly 6 Aug. 7/3 A rice paddy..through which trainee squads are sent, as on a Korean patrol. 1956B.B.C. Handbk. 1957 138 Sixteen trainee broadcasters. 1962Lancet 1 Dec. 1156/2 The trainee assistant scheme is on the right lines, but there have been complaints that the scheme has occasionally been abused by trainers who used their trainees as ordinary assistants. 1977Grimsby Even. Tel. 31 May 5/7 Miss Sally Dixon, a trainee nurse, was announced as the hospital's Jubilee representative following a ballot. 1978West Lancs. Even. Gaz. 23 Feb. 17 (Advt.), Vacancies for able young persons as trainees.
Hence traiˈneeship, the position of a trainee, a post as a trainee.
1961Listener 14 Dec. 1021/2 Some management traineeship schemes in industry and commerce. 1964New Statesman 13 Nov. 747/1 Bourgeois and ambitious parents..thrust their sons into low-paid traineeships with prospects of eventual power and wealth. 1966Rep. Comm. Inquiry Univ. Oxf. II. 193 The category ‘other’ includes general traineeships and postgraduate apprenticeships. 1980Nature 14 Feb. 610/1 The universities hope that the administration can be persuaded to contribute more than $150 million..to provide a national support programme of grants, traineeships and fellowships. |