Apprenticeship Meaning
/əˈpɹɛn.tɪs.ʃɪp/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice.
nounThe system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions.
Sentence Examples
I am going to do an apprenticeship.
Some electricians learn their trade within an apprenticeship system instead of going to college.
Tom has completed his apprenticeship as an electrician.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He completed a three-year ____ to become a certified electrician at the company.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She decided to apply for a technical ____ at the local engineering firm.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English apprentice Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English apprenticeship From apprentice + -ship.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Anticipation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 41:
"Entry to shop grades is by apprenticeship, boys bring taken as apprentices on leaving school."
— 1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 206:
"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."
— 2023 March 8, Neil Robertson, “Tackling the skills shortage”, in RAIL, number 978, page 33:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He completed a three-year ____ to become a certified electrician at the company.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She decided to apply for a technical ____ at the local engineering firm.