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[uh-pren-tis]

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noun

a person who works for another in order to learn a trade: an apprentice to a plumber.

History/Historical. a person legally bound through indenture to a master craftsman in order to learn a trade.

a learner; novice; tyro.

U.S. Navy. an enlisted person receiving specialized training.

a jockey with less than one year's experience who has won fewer than 40 races.

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verb (used with object)

to bind to or place with an employer, master craftsman, or the like, for instruction in a trade.

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verb (used without object)

to serve as an apprentice: He apprenticed for 14 years under a master silversmith.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English ap(p)rentis < Anglo-French, Old French ap(p)rentiz < Vulgar Latin *apprenditīcius, equivalent to *apprendit(us) (for Latin apprehēnsus; see apprehensible) + Latin -īcius suffix forming adjectives from past participles, here nominalized

Related forms

ap·pren·tice·ship, noun

un·ap·pren·ticed, adjective

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McCarty completed a three-year, informal apprenticeship with another direct-entry midwife.

The key goals of this extended apprenticeship are to publish dissertation research and obtain experience in grantsmanship.

The economic downturn has seen a revival in the fortunes of the apprenticeship.

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McCarty completed a three-year, informal apprenticeship with another direct-entry midwife.

The key goals of this extended apprenticeship are to publish dissertation research and obtain experience in grantsmanship.

The economic downturn has seen a revival in the fortunes of the apprenticeship.

Scientists judge the credibility of experimental results based on experience and apprenticeship.

He got so interested in tinkering with them that he skipped out on his apprenticeship.

There is, in fact, a long and fascinating history of literary apprenticeship.

Focus on finishing both your course work and your preprofessional apprenticeship with as little hand-wringing as possible.

They will never get an apprenticeship nor will they ever get a job.

Marie's apprenticeship was, however, brought to a rather early close by the pressure of necessity.

Lurk is the cognitive apprenticeship term for legitimate peripheral participation.

The report declares that apprenticeship a well kept secret but offers little to change the situation.

It began with light manufacturing, using simple technologies that did not require a long apprenticeship to master.

Graduate school is on one level a professional apprenticeship.

When they have finished school, they are rarely offered even an unpaid internship, let alone an apprenticeship.

But the best part of being an adjunct is that it can serve as a kind of professorial apprenticeship.

Their training is long and bookish: degrees in law and art history, and then an apprenticeship of three years.

Young academics' apprenticeship in pursuing and promoting the truth is often haphazard.

He became a writer after an unfulfilling apprenticeship as an architect.

Most scholars takes seriously the age-old system of mentoring and apprenticeship that make up doctoral education.

First, baby lawyers can also be shipped to the developing world for an apprenticeship.

They should think of it as an apprenticeship for the real world.

No licensing or special skills or apprenticeship needed.

In addition to the above mentioned perks, reviewing textbook chapters is a good apprenticeship for writing books yourself.

It is a shame that the idea of apprenticeship in this country has fallen by the wayside.

The former guard began an apprenticeship two years ago, but where and when that opportunity may arise is undetermined.

Rising from the keyboards and choir of his father's storefront church and from a doo-wop apprenticeship begun in the.

My husband teaches workers in a millwright apprenticeship program.

It had, according to my father, to do with the first lessons learned in apprenticeship.

What does bother me is the way that higher subsidies for university than for apprenticeship may distort people's.

Perhaps this is due to the rather severe apprenticeship.

Apprenticeship or a university curriculum with all the fat trimmed would be a vast improvement.

For some, a construction apprenticeship also is an opportunity to start over.

The best system for training business managers is an apprenticeship in which the apprentice works in all departments.

Expand training and apprenticeship programs that help graduates get decent jobs.

Washington spent his musical apprenticeship on the rhythm-and-blues circuit, working with bands and organ trios.

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apprentice (əˈprɛntɪs)

—n
1.	someone who works for a skilled or qualified person in order to learn a trade or profession, esp for a recognized period
2.	any beginner or novice

—vb
3.	(tr) to take, place, or bind as an apprentice

[C14: from Old French aprentis, from Old French aprendre to learn, from Latin apprehendere to apprehend]

ap'prenticeship

—n

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Word Origin & History

apprentice

c.1300, from O.Fr. aprentiz "someone learning" (13c.), from aprendre (Mod.Fr. apprendre) "to learn, teach," contracted from L. apprehendere (see apprehend). Aphetic form prentice was long more usual in English. The verb is first attested 1630s.

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apprenticeship

1590s, from apprentice + -ship. Replaced earlier apprenticehood (late 14c., from -hood, q.v.).

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