pupillage

/ ˈpjuːpɪlɪdʒ /

noun

1. the condition of being a pupil or duration for which one is a pupil

2. (in England) the period spent by a newly called barrister in the chambers of a member of the bar

Example Sentences

Another said: "A male barrister at a Manchester set of chambers offered to pay for my Bar Professional Training Course if I engaged in an intimate relationship with him. When I refused, he called me frigid and suggested that it was my fault for asking him to review my pupillage application. I assumed he was being helpful, but I now understand he made similar offers to other female law students."

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Both, you can tell, have studied their respective masters with scrupulous care, and the results of their pupillage are plain to see.

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He passed his bar exams only to find he was unable to secure a pupillage at a chambers.

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I believe I could conform myself to the Humours of the greatest Caprichio, were I afterwards to be as happy as the young Lady you have mentioned; we must all of us suffer some Way or other in our Pupillage: The Apprentice serves out his Time with Chearfulness, in Expectation of being his own Man at the seven Years End.

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In pupillage to Hayter she learned not only the diverse techniques of gravure, but a philosophy centred on Hayter's overriding principle, "adequate motive", which means that superb skills are not enough.

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