newcomernew‧com‧er /ˈnjuːkʌmə $ ˈnuːkʌmər/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
Examples
I’m a relative newcomer to the retail business. a special award for the most promising newcomer2something that did not exist beforenewcomer to The most glamorous newcomer to the Volkswagen Golf range is the revamped GTi 16 valve.
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Also elected was council newcomer Mike Rowlinson.
- Although she's a newcomer to the sport, she's already very successful.
- I was fifty and a comparative newcomer to computers.
- Our team will include some familiar faces as well as a few newcomers.
- The inhabitants of these remote mountain villages tend to be very suspicious of newcomers.
- He used to run the Harvard program for newcomers in Congress, to introduce them to the legislative process.
- The newcomer mates as soon as females are in oestrus.
- The landlord, anxious to please, pushed glasses of hollands before the newcomers.
- The open-year problem also deters new capital, for it threatens to saddle newcomers too with unquantifiable losses from the past.
- There was even room for high-profile newcomers at the toy fair, such as software giant Microsoft.
- When the market turned sour on the wireless newcomers, the big bidders were stuck.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who has just started a new job, school etc► new
Collocations someone who is new has only recently arrived in a place, started working in a particular job, or joined an organization: · You're new here, aren't you?· All new employees are given training.new to: · Children who are new to the school may need extra help.· We don't expect you to work as fast as everyone else, while you're still new to the job.new recruit: · Our club membership is flourishing - we've had a huge number of new recruits this year.
► newcomer someone who has only recently arrived in a place or only recently started a job, sport, or other activity: · The inhabitants of these remote mountain villages tend to be very suspicious of newcomers.· Our team will include some familiar faces as well as a few newcomers.newcomer to: · Although she's a newcomer to the sport, she's already very successful.comparative/relative newcomer (=someone who has arrived or started doing something recently, compared to other people): · I was fifty and a comparative newcomer to computers.
► new arrival someone who has just arrived in a place, especially in order to live or work there: · Jim, this is our new arrival, Lyndsay. She'll be taking over from Bob.· 1200 new arrivals, including small children and babies, were left sitting on the pavement outside the embassy.the new arrival (=a newly-born baby): · Gwyn's children, Craig and Laura, are thrilled with the new arrival.
► stranger someone who has just arrived in a place which they have never been to before, and which they do not know much about: · The people I stayed with were very kind, so I didn't feel like a stranger for long.· Many of the farming families have lived here for hundreds of years, and tend to treat everyone else as strangers.
► fresh someone who is fresh from a place of education has only just finished training and is not experienced when they arrive at a new job: fresh from: · You can't expect teachers fresh from college to deal with large classes of difficult children.fresh out of: · We were under the command of a young lieutenant who was fresh out of officer training school.
► rookie American someone who has just started doing a job or playing a professional sport, and has little experience: · It was rookie coach, Ray Rhodes, who got the most credit for keeping the team in check.· a rookie cop
► fresher British /freshman American a student who has just started at a university or college: · I was eighteen years old and a freshman at Harvard.· a freshers' party· freshers' week
► newbie informal someone who is a new user of a technology, especially the Internet: · The program is simple to use, even for newbies.
► new blood someone who starts a new job or joins an organization and is likely to make improvements, for example by introducing more modern ideas and methods: · They seem to be expecting everyone over 50 to step aside and make way for new blood.· After its membership halved in the past year, leaving mainly diehard right-wingers behind, the party now desperately needs new blood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► other
Phrases· Wilson steadied the team at the back and was supported well by Lawrence and the other newcomer, Bain.· Meanwhile, those same gossipers will have found yet some other newcomer about whom to enthuse.
► political· So Kimon's rivals, Pericles and Ephialtes, were not political newcomers in 462.· Robert K.. Dornan by political newcomer Loretta Sanchez.
► relative· A relative newcomer to the news control booth is the remote coordinator.· The detractors say they are relative newcomers who would have constituted a gamble.· A relative newcomer to Wallingford, starting seven years ago.· But having lived in a Louisiana prison for five years, he is a relative newcomer.
VERB► leave· The Customs officer closed the door softly, almost reverently, leaving her and the newcomer alone.· The Ohio bank does not leave its newcomers to sink or swim by themselves.· In a sense, they did not leave the newcomers behind.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► comparative beginner/newcomer etc
1someone who has only recently arrived somewhere or only recently started a particular activity → novicenewcomer to- A word of advice - don't sit for hours at the knitting machine, particularly if you are a comparative beginner.
- The fishing and fish-processing industry in North Shields is a comparative newcomer.
I’m a relative newcomer to the retail business. a special award for the most promising newcomer2something that did not exist beforenewcomer to The most glamorous newcomer to the Volkswagen Golf range is the revamped GTi 16 valve.