1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. basic training

Find the word definition

What is "basic training"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
basic training
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite this, I felt it would be better to prove myself in basic training before allowing my real personality to resurface.
▪ Group-based training need form only a small part of the complete basic training course.
▪ I think they all take a course in it during basic training.
▪ In the main, however, the selection procedure is rigorous enough so that basic training does not have to be used for assessment purposes.
▪ L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men, most of whom had been through the basic training course.
▪ Prevention is better than cure, and you should use a lot of deep stances during your basic training.
▪ The basic training is amazingly quick.
▪ The continuing theme during basic training will be interviewing skills, without which the advisory process may not get under way.
Wiktionary
basic training

n. (context military English) The standard training regime for introducing new recruits to the organization's discipline and basic operational skills.

WordNet
basic training

n. the initial period of training for new military personnel; involves intense physical activity and behavioral discipline

Wikipedia
Basic Training (1985 film)

Basic Training (a.k.a. Up the Military) is a 1985 sex comedy film by Andrew Sugerman. It is often considered to be one of the worst films of 1985.

Basic Training

Basic Training may refer to:

  • Basic Training, a 1971 American documentary directed by Frederick Wiseman
  • Basic Training (1985 film), an American sex comedy
  • Recruit training

Usage examples of "basic training".

Spend six weeks taking a class in Georgian, a month or so getting to know the people, basic training period, then some stick around for advanced training.

Now all the units, as they complete basic training, are to be shipped as units to their permanent posting.

Heris chuckled in spite of herself, remembering a miserable tour as an officer in charge of basic training.

Darva and I were led through as much basic training and instruction as we could take.

Her breasts were tingling from the chill as they had in basic training, a lifetime ago.

Things hadn't gone quite so well in basic training, but that had been his first exposure to mass human psychology.

You do your seventeen weeks of basic training and then return to civilian life with your uniform and rifleuntil next year, when you do a couple of weeks' refresher course, and so on until you are fifty.

You do your seventeen weeks of basic training and then return to civilian life with your uniform and rifle-until next year, when you do a couple of weeks' refresher course, and so on until you are fifty.