semitrained en · ADJ
Etymology
From semi- + trained.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having completed only part of a course of training.
“At Kinko’s, there’s a thin veneer of professional folks riding herd on a vast platoon of semitrained people,” said James E. Schrager, clinical professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
2007 May 5, Claudia H. Deutsch, “Paper Jam at FedEx Kinko’s”, in New York Times: