apprenticeship

[ uh-pren-tis-ship ]
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noun
  1. 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.

  2. 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

  • It was proposed, he said, to place the slave for a limited time in an intermediate state of apprenticeship.

  • Beyond this there is no suggestion of policy, either for the blind or for the deaf and dumb, except as regards apprenticeship.

  • The deaf and dumb did not need to be taught to read and write before being eligible for apprenticeship.

  • Thus she served her apprenticeship in that double-faced policy which was ever the secret motor of her life.

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