protégé

The definition of a protégé is a person being helped to further their career by someone already established in the same field.

(noun)

An example of a protégé is a student teacher being paired up with to learn from a college professor.

See protégé in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a person guided and helped, esp. in the furtherance of his or her career, by another, more influential person

Origin: Fr, pp. of protéger < L protegere, protect

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