apprenticeship

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.”

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