untrained
adjective /ʌnˈtreɪnd/Definition
› never having been taught the skills for a particular job: untrained staffEmployment status and types of workInexperienced (of people)Naive and trusting to the untrained eye › to someone without the skill or knowledge to judge what they see: To the untrained eye, most fake diamonds look real.Inexperienced (of people)Naive and trusting
(Definition of untrained adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Types of employment, but you might be interested in these topics from the Business topic area:
- Accounting
- Advertising and marketing
- Applying for a job
- Bills & invoices
- Bosses & managers
- Business - general words
- Buying
- Buying & selling - general words
- Employees & colleagues
- Enterprises
- Firing staff
- Industrial action
- Industrial relations
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Negotiating prices
- Office practices
- People who buy things
- People who sell things
- Promoting staff
- Retiring & resigning
- Selling
- Shops & auctions
- Success & failure in business
- Time off
- Traders & entrepreneurs
- Working hours
Browse the Thesaurus
SMART Thesaurus
Synonyms and related words:
- administrative adjective
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys noun
- blue-collar adjective
- casual adjective (TEMPORARY)
- honorary adjective
- jobless noun
- jobseeker noun
- labour-intensive adjective
- lackey noun
- managerial adjective
- probation noun
- semi-skilled adjective
- shiftwork noun
- short time noun
- skilled adjective
- skilled noun
- the low man on the totem pole idiom
- treadmill noun (REPEATED WORK)
- unpaid adjective
Topic:
Types of employment
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Word of the Day
throw sb together
If two people are thrown together, they meet each other in a way that was not planned, or events...
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
