raw recruit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrawandrecruit
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raw
adjective
uk/rɔː/us/rɑː/
(of food) ...
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recruit
noun[C]
uk/rɪˈkruːt/us/rɪˈkruːt/
a new member of an organization, especially ...
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(Definition ofrawandrecruitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Although they make wonderful progress in six weeks, the recruit is still a veryrawrecruitat the end of six weeks.
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I cannot assure him that the easycamaraderieof the smoking room invariably exists between the warrant officer and therawrecruit.
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The best territorial battalion would take at least six weekends of hard training to turn arawrecruitinto anything like a soldier at all.
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Surely she is infinitely more valuable than a completelyrawrecruit.
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Last year'srawrecruitfirst becomes a professional in his specialist role.
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This is £2 per year less than arawrecruitinto the police force receives after only 20 weeks training.
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Norawrecruitwill stroll up to a commanding officer and complain.
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It stands to reason that a skilled worker is deserving of more than an apprentice, or that a sergeant is deserving of more than arawrecruit.
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There are also savings to be made in relieving the strain on anyone connected with medicine, from therawrecruitnurse right up to the consultant.
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She speaks as if driving instructors who deal not with the polished examinee but with therawrecruitwho cannot drive are not in any danger.
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A heavy,rawrecruit, he debuted in 1927 and was considered to be slow and cumbersome at the beginning of his career.
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For their assistance the military has provided an initial period of basic military training, a course of instruction intended to transform therawrecruitinto an airman.
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At the time of the crisis a great many of the officers and nearly all the men were raw recruits.
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Of course, we could not begin to do so, but these are, after all, by no means untrained, raw recruits.
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The police, who were young, raw recruits and should not have been there, were urging lorry drivers to "step on it".
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There has also been a tragic wastage of experienced policemen who will now be replaced with raw recruits.
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An excessive dependence on probationers and raw recruits in the front line of the police service is unsatisfactory in itself.
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Neither can we tolerate the rapid replacement of seasoned officers by raw recruits.
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I cannot tell how many are working underground, but one trouble is to get room at the face for the raw recruits.
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