finalist vs trainee

finalist

noun
  • A university student in their final year of study. 

  • A university student during the period of sitting their final examinations (whether or not in their final year of study). 

  • Somebody or something that appears in the final stage of a competition. 

trainee

noun
  • A juvenile inmate being trained and (re)educated in a reformatory school. 

  • Someone who is still in the process of being formally trained in a workplace. 

How often have the words finalist and trainee occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )