time-served
Completed required training
Time-served describes someone who has completed a required period of training or apprenticeship in a trade: a time-served electrician, a time-served carpenter.
The term emphasizes practical experience and formal qualification through years of work rather than academic credentials alone.
Chiefly British.
Skilled manual worker
- journeymanQualified trade worker
- craftsmanSkilled manual worker
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
qualification · skilled · experienced · veteran · seasoned · master · workshop · mentorship
Confinement for offenders
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- releaseTo let go
- paroleConditional early release
- inmateConfined facility resident
convict · rehabilitation · reentry · cellmate · warden · penitentiary · correctional · ex-con
tradesman
Skilled manual worker
- journeymanQualified trade worker
- craftsmanSkilled manual worker
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
training · qualification · skilled · experienced · veteran · seasoned · master · workshop · mentorship · apprentice
prison
Confinement for offenders
inmate · convict · rehabilitation · reentry · cellmate · warden · penitentiary · correctional · ex-con · parolee
time-servedself-taught
Educated without instructors
autodidact · untutored · unschooled · untrained · self-made
time-servedunqualified
Lacking required credentials
uncertified · unaccredited · uncredentialed · amateur · unlicensed
time-servedapprentice
Learner bound to employer
trainee · novice · beginner · inexperienced · neophyte
time, serve, served, times, timed, timing, timer, timers, timely