Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The service or legal condition of an apprentice; the method or process of gaining knowledge of some trade, art, or profession from the instruction of a master.
- noun The term during which one is an apprentice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.
- noun The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the condition of, or the time served by, an
apprentice - noun the system by which a person learning a
craft ortrade is instructed by amaster for a settime under setconditions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the position of apprentice
Etymologies
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Examples
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But in the creative disciplines the apprenticeship is about to be replaced by: the Creative Apprenticeship.
Valuing design graduates and academics Jonathan 2008
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But in the creative disciplines the apprenticeship is about to be replaced by: the Creative Apprenticeship.
Archive 2008-07-01 Jonathan 2008
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But I did what I call my apprenticeship, you know, just playing -- singing and playing every night in pubs and clubs.
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Posted in apprenticeship bonus, conservative announcement.
Conservatives Woo Tradespeople « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Posted in apprenticeship bonus, conservative announcement.
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I know that the idea of an apprenticeship is more important in the classical world, that you should build up a solid career bit by bit, rather than aim for sudden, one-time success.
Archive 2006-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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I know that the idea of an apprenticeship is more important in the classical world, that you should build up a solid career bit by bit, rather than aim for sudden, one-time success.
Rock Me Amadeus Matthew Guerrieri 2006
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They would far rather go back to those small, unstructured, entrepreneurial lively companies where they didn't have to deal with bureaucracy The error of apprenticeship is over.
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Together, Vermeer and Griet conceal the apprenticeship from the family until Vermeer's most prominent patron demands that the lovely maid be the subject of his next commissioned work.
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier: Questions 1999
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We are also assured that, having served his party and, therefore, his country, in apprenticeship for a long period in every conceivable office and role, both provincially and federally, despite his relative youth he has come to the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in Canada, and leader of the official opposition, not as a novice, but as one tried and tempered in the crucible of government of our national affairs.
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