apprenticeship

English

Etymology

apprentice +‎ -ship

Pronunciation

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Noun

apprenticeship (plural apprenticeships)

1. The condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice.
2. The system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions.
   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 1, page 41:

     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.

   • 1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 206:

     Entry to shop grades is by apprenticeship, boys bring taken as apprentices on leaving school.

Derived terms

• pre-apprenticeship

Translations

condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice

• Catalan: aprenentatge (ca) m
• Dutch: stage (nl) f or m
• Finnish: harjoittelu (fi)
• French: apprentissage (fr) m
• German: Ausbildungszeit (de) f, Lehre (de) f, Lehrzeit (de) f
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• Italian: tirocinio (it) m
• Portuguese: aprendizado (pt) m
• Romanian: ucenicie (ro) f
• Scottish Gaelic: preantasachd f, tàilleabhachd f
• Spanish: aprendizaje (es) f
• Turkish: çıraklık (tr)
• Walloon: stadje (wa) m

system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed

• Catalan: aprenentatge (ca) m
• Dutch: stage (nl) f or m
• Finnish: oppisopimus
• French: apprentissage (fr) m
• German: Lehre (de) f, Ausbildung (de) f, Lehrstelle (de) f
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• Italian: apprendistato (it)
• Portuguese: aprendizado (pt) m, aprendizagem (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: preantasachd f, tàilleabhachd f
• Spanish: formación profesional f
• Walloon: aprindissaedje (wa) m, stadje (wa) m