apprenticeship
a program or position in which someone learns a trade by working under a certified expert: The course provides students with a good base for securing apprenticeships in the plumbing and gasfitting industries.
the state or position of any learner or novice: His apprenticeship in political struggle was gained in the Spanish Civil War.
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How to use apprenticeship in a sentence
“Trading Stories” Jumpa Lahiri, The New Yorker Notes from a literary apprenticeship.
Some Times insiders say the blunt-spoken Abramson was getting impatient with the long apprenticeship.
Susur learned how to cook while serving his culinary apprenticeship at Hong Kong's renowned Peninsula Hotel.
This can be community college or a four-year school; vocational training or an apprenticeship.
Accordingly the future Marshal served his apprenticeship to arms under officers who knew their service and loved it.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
It was proposed, he said, to place the slave for a limited time in an intermediate state of apprenticeship.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanBeyond this there is no suggestion of policy, either for the blind or for the deaf and dumb, except as regards apprenticeship.
English Poor Law Policy | Sidney WebbThe deaf and dumb did not need to be taught to read and write before being eligible for apprenticeship.
English Poor Law Policy | Sidney WebbThus she served her apprenticeship in that double-faced policy which was ever the secret motor of her life.
Catherine de' Medici | Honore de Balzac
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