"mentee" meaning in English

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          "text": "Near-synonyms: apprentice, buddy (in training sense), intern, pupil, student, trainee"
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          "ref": "1958, Laurence E. Leamer, “Economic Education in Colleges”, in Educating Youth for Economic Competence (American Business Education Yearbook), volume 15, Eastern Business Teachers Association, page 49:",
          "text": "The mentee occasionally teaches the class, regularly confers with students, conducts optional special study sessions, and relieves the professor of most clerical classroom functions",
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          "ref": "1979 April 11, Robert A. Cohn, “'Norma Rae' Gets an 'A'”, in St. Louis Jewish Light, page 14:",
          "text": "[T]he two characters form a beautiful mentor-mentee relationship in which each derives tremendous strength from the other",
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          "ref": "2022 November 29, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Must I Mentor a White Law Student When I Requested a Black Mentee?”, in The New York Times Magazine:",
          "text": "In some mentorship programs, the mentees get a say in whom they will be paired with. A 'mentee may be drawn to make certain connections based on a sense of their professional influence.",
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          "ref": "2023 January 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Tár review – Cate Blanchett is perfect lead in delirious, sensual drama”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Her assistant, played by Noémie Merlant (another would-be conductor) appears to be someone else she is keeping on an emotional string, and she is being stalked by another former mentee who has become obsessed with her;[…]",
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        "A person who is being mentored."
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          "word": "mentoree"
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