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newcomer

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++new·com·er /ˈnjuːkʌmə $ ˈnuːkʌmər/ ●○○ noun [countable]  1 NEWsomeone who has only recently arrived somewhere or only recently started a particular activity 新来的人;新手 novicenewcomer to I’m a relative newcomer to the retail business. 我在零售行业相对来说还是个新手。 a special award for the most promising newcomer 颁发给最有前途新人的特殊奖项2 something that did not exist before 新生事物newcomer to The most glamorous newcomer to the Volkswagen Golf range is the revamped GTi 16 valve. 大众高尔夫系列最具魅力的新车型是经改良的GTi 16缸气门款。
Examples from the Corpus
newcomerAlthough she's a newcomer to the sport, she's already very successful.I was fifty and a comparative newcomer to computers.Also elected was council newcomer Mike Rowlinson.Our team will include some familiar faces as well as a few newcomers.He used to run the Harvard program for newcomers in Congress, to introduce them to the legislative process.The inhabitants of these remote mountain villages tend to be very suspicious of newcomers.There was even room for high-profile newcomers at the toy fair, such as software giant Microsoft.The open-year problem also deters new capital, for it threatens to saddle newcomers too with unquantifiable losses from the past.The landlord, anxious to please, pushed glasses of hollands before the newcomers.The newcomer mates as soon as females are in oestrus.When the market turned sour on the wireless newcomers, the big bidders were stuck.newcomer toStair climbers are relative newcomers to the exercise scene.
new·com·er nounChineseSyllable
somewhere only arrived has or recently someone Corpus who


newcomer
newcomer /ˈnjuːkʌmə $ ˈnuːkʌmər/ noun [countable]
1. someone who has only recently arrived somewhere or only recently started a particular activity ⇨ novice
    newcomer to
    I’m a relative newcomer to the retail business.
    a special award for the most promising newcomer
2. something that did not exist before
    newcomer to
    The most glamorous newcomer to the Volkswagen Golf range is the revamped GTi 16 valve.


new·comerBrE /ˈnjuːkʌmə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈnuːkʌmər/ 🔊 noun~ (to sth) a person who has only recently arrived in a place or started an activity 新来者;新手