office junior

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

His uncle was a solicitor and he went to work as an office junior at the firm.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2022

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

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2013

Among those who helped to pick up the pieces was John Maxse, now a PR consultant with the British Horseracing Authority but in 1993 a newly arrived office junior in the Jockey Club's PR operation.

From The Guardian • Apr. 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

James Thompson, Malcolm Sage's principal assistant, and William Johnson, the office junior, had also been engaged, and their enthusiasm has been as great as that of their colleague, although less dramatically expressed.

From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Jenkins, Herbert George