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office junior

British  

noun

  1. a young person, esp a school-leaver, employed in an office for running errands and doing other minor jobs

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Little more than an office junior, he gave visiting VIPs tours of mission control.

From BBC • May 12, 2019

Our comedy heroes are often self-destructive standups or seditious characters in sitcoms, but what if you’re not the loose cannon getting taken to task for menacing an office junior?

From The Guardian • May 11, 2019

The top brass can get away with it but it's not advisable for the office junior or workie.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2013

It’s the French embassy, and in the ambassador’s office, junior diplomats smoked and fetched faxes underneath giant frescoes by Francesco Salviati and Taddeo Zuccari.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2011

In this Malcolm Sage was a bitter disappointment to William Johnson, the office junior.

From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Jenkins, Herbert George

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