Dictionary

basic training en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The standard training regimen for introducing new recruits to a military organization's discipline and basic operational skills.
   • Next thing I know, they were drafting me and sending me off to Fort Sill for basic training. Talk about whiplash.
   • Near-synonym: boot camp
2. (broadly, figuratively, often, uncountable) A more or less analogous (albeit nonmartial) experience in the civilian world.
   • There's no such thing as formal apprenticeship in this industry. The only preparation you get is some basic training where you sink or swim while trying to look alive.

Relateds

basic education

Synonyms

boot camp

Translations (16)

fr classes (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · fi peruskoulutuskausi (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · fi peruskoulutus (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · cmn 訓練營地 /训练营地 (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · de Grundausbildung (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · ja 新兵訓練所 (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · hu kiképzőtábor (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · ru уче́бный ла́герь (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · ru курс молодо́го бойца́ (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · fi alokaskausi (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · cmn 新兵訓練營 /新兵训练营 (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · he טירונות (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · fi alokasjakso (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · fi A-kausi (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · fi P-kausi (standard training regime for introducing new recruits) · nl basistraining (standard training regime for introducing new recruits)