Jackaroo

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  • n. A white man living outside white settlement.
  • n. A trainee station manager or owner, working as a stockman or farm hand; formerly, a young man of independent means working at a station in a supernumerary capacity to gain experience.
  • v. To work as a jackaroo.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life.
  • verb-intransitive. To be a jackaroo; to pass one's time as a jackaroo.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A new chum; a new arrival from England in the bush.
  • To learn one's business by bush-farming: said of an inexperienced greenhorn in Australia who assumes the position and duties of a jackaroo before taking up a station of his own. See jackaroo, n.
  • Word Usage
    "The prince has arrived for a three month stay in Australia where he will work as a Australian cowboy - known as a jackaroo - on remote cattle ranches in the Outback."
    Equivalent
    jackeroo   
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