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Meaning of apprenticeship | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
əˈpɹɛn.tɪs.ʃɪp

Definitions

  1. The condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice.
  2. learning
  3. The system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions.

Equivalents

Examples

“There, however, he had disappointed expectation. In sooth, his genius was of too creative an order for the apprenticeship of learning; he needed life in its hopes, its fears, its endurance; all that the poet learns to reproduce.”
“Entry to shop grades is by apprenticeship, boys bring taken as apprentices on leaving school.”
“Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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