Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking, or characterized by lack of, experience or the knowledge or skill gained by experience; not experienced.
- Synonyms Unpractised, unversed, “raw,” “green.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not having experience; unskilled; naive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
experienced ; lacking knowledge or experience;green .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking practical experience or training
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Examples
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These divergent party impulses figure to be even more acute if the Democratic nominee is Sen. Obama, who is widely perceived as inspirational but "inexperienced" -- a code word for not knowing enough about how the big, bad world really works.
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The airplane troubles come as the union of professional engineers that service the Qantas fleet plans its weekend strike to protest what it describes as inexperienced managers filling in on overnight shifts.
Home - BostonHerald.com Associated Press 2010
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Practising lawyers find it harder to get trained staff and find less time to train inexperienced staff.
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Describing Palin as inexperienced is an understatement.
Think Progress » Jeb Bush: Sarah Palin lacks a ‘depth of understanding.’ 2010
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Talking about guest posts, I recently got an email from a new guest poster, saying: “Write to Done is a fantastic place to land a guest post because you take the time to train inexperienced bloggers.”
Why Blogs are the Brain of the World or, the Story of Write to Done | Write to Done 2010
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Practising lawyers find it harder to get trained staff and find less time to train inexperienced staff.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Bush was in inexperienced and unqualified candidate in 2000 who could only speak with slogans and vague promises.
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Obama is in inexperienced and unqualified candidate in 2008 who can only speak with slogans and vague promises.
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Bush was in inexperienced and unqualified candidate in 2000 who could only speak with slogans and vague promises.
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Obama/Edwards 08 all of these save the Edwards ticket I would like to see reverse order on, and the Edwards ticket i have no real feel for top ticket because they are both inexperienced from the foreign policy point of view. rk
Clinton picks up a superdelegate, but still lags behind 2008
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