apprenticeship

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ap·pren·tice

(ə-prĕn′tĭs)

1. One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.

2. One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labor union.

3. A beginner; a learner.

v. ap·pren·ticed, ap·pren·tic·ing, ap·pren·tic·es

v.intr.

To work as an apprentice: She apprenticed at the ceramics studio.

v.tr.

To engage as an apprentice: In colonial times many children were apprenticed to craftsmen.

[Middle English apprentis, from Old French aprentis, from Vulgar Latin *apprēnditīcius, from *apprēnditus, alteration of Latin apprehēnsus, past participle of apprehendere, to seize; see apprehend.]

ap·pren′tice·ship′ n.

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Noun

apprenticeship - the position of apprentice

berth, billet, post, situation, position, office, place, spot - a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"

apprenticeship

noun traineeship, probation, studentship, novitiate or noviciate He served an apprenticeship as a tool-maker.

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Translations

تَدَرُّب عَلى مِهْنَه

učňovství

læretidlærlingetid

Lehre

aprendizaje

apprentissage

tanulóidõ

lærlingsstaîa, læri

apprendistato istruzione noviziato

lære lærlingkontrakt

učňovstvo

çıraklık

学徒期或见习期学徒身份

apprenticeship

[əˈprentɪʃɪp] N → aprendizaje m
to serve one's apprenticeship → hacer el aprendizaje

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apprenticeship

[əˈprɛntɪsʃɪp] n → apprentissage m
to serve one's apprenticeship → faire son apprentissage
to serve one's apprenticeship as sth → faire son apprentissage de qch

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apprenticeship

n → Lehre f, → Lehrzeit f; to serve one’s apprenticeship → seine Lehre or Lehrzeit absolvieren or machen

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apprenticeship

[əˈprɛntɪsˌʃɪp] n → apprendistato, tirocinio
to serve one's apprenticeship → fare il proprio apprendistato or tirocinio

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apprentice

(əˈprentis) noun

a (usually young) person who is learning a trade.

verb

to make (someone) an apprentice. His father apprenticed him to an engineer.

apˈprenticeship noun

the state of being, or the time during which a person is, an apprentice. He is serving his apprenticeship as a mechanic.

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Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

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He began, at an early age, as a clerk, and served an apprenticeship of seven years, for which he received one hundred pounds sterling, was maintained at the expense of the company, and furnished with suitable clothing and equipments.

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"An aristocrat need not be ashamed of the trade," observed Laurence; "for the Czar Peter the Great once served an apprenticeship to it."

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Twenty years of unwilling apprenticeship had been required to make my system rebelliously tolerant of alcohol, to make me, in the heart and the deeps of me, desirous of alcohol.

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(And indeed he had served three years as clerk to an attorney in the north of Ireland, when, chusing a genteeler walk in life, he quitted his master, came over to England, and set up that business which requires no apprenticeship, namely, that of a gentleman, in which he had succeeded, as hath been already partly mentioned.)

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David Faux, even before his apprenticeship was ended.

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Trefusis mentioned that the apprenticeship of a mason was quite as long, twice as laborious, and not half so pleasant.

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"Excuse me, my dear governor; but you speak a language which requires quite an apprenticeship to understand."

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It shall be on your family's behalf that I'll start my apprenticeship as old maid."

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Bumble, when the lady brought her eyes down to earth again; 'the only thing that can be done now, that I know of, is to leave him in the cellar for a day or so, till he's a little starved down; and then to take him out, and keep him on gruel all through the apprenticeship. He comes of a bad family.

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He got no new clothing during his apprenticeship, but on his graduation day his master tricked him out in spang-new tow-linens and made him feel unspeakably rich and fine.

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de Treville's hotel, "at least I have entered upon my apprenticeship, haven't I?"