How to pronounce“rookie”in English
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Definitions of “rookie”
An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
“Corbett is convinced it was a systemic failure: "The Thames Train was driven by a rookie driver who had only just come into the job. It is, in fact, difficult to run through a red light, because you have to cancel the Automatic Warning System (AWS) and so on. But he continued for 700 yards and he accelerated, which no one understands why.”
A novice.
Non-professional; amateur
“The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.”
To be a rookie; to go through one's inexperienced learning period in a job, team, or organization.
“In 1977 he rookied as a smokejumper with the International Forest Fire Systems, a private firm that contracted smokejumping services to Canada's Northwest Territories.”
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