apprenticeship

[ uh-pren-tis-ship ]

/ əˈprɛn tɪsˌʃɪp /

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noun

a program or position in which someone learns a trade by working under a certified expert: The course provides students with a good base for securing apprenticeships in the plumbing and gasfitting industries.

the state or position of any learner or novice: His apprenticeship in political struggle was gained in the Spanish Civil War.

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Origin of apprenticeship

apprentice + -ship

Words nearby apprenticeship

apprehend, apprehensible, apprehension, apprehensive, apprentice, apprenticeship, appressed, appressorium, apprise, apprised, apprize

How to use apprenticeship in a sentence

Nearly half of Trilogy employees are furthering their skills through a structured apprenticeship program which can result in a certification and more pay every few months.
How one of the best elder care companies has found opportunity in the COVID crisis|lbelanger225|December 10, 2020|Fortune
In marketing materials, the product was presented as a sort of apprenticeship-in-a-box, teaching “correct” engineering principles that competing toys purportedly failed to demonstrate.
Toys Are the Future of Philosophy - Issue 93: Forerunners|Jonathon Keats|December 9, 2020|Nautilus
Their system shared fundamental similarities with that of the New Orleans Saints, which Burrow understood because his wunderkind offensive coordinator at LSU, Joe Brady, had come from an apprenticeship under Sean Payton.
Rookie QBs were expected to struggle this year. Instead they’re setting a record pace.|Adam Kilgore|November 12, 2020|Washington Post
He also wanted to remove a requirement that certain workers on the project be supervised by graduates from an apprenticeship program.
Barrios Worked With Laborers as a Council Staffer Before Taking a Job There|Andrew Keatts and Jesse Marx|September 24, 2020|Voice of San Diego

He forwarded the email to Tom Lemmon, leader of another labor group, the San Diego County Building Trades Council, which, unlike Macedo, supported the apprenticeship requirement.
Barrios Worked With Laborers as a Council Staffer Before Taking a Job There|Andrew Keatts and Jesse Marx|September 24, 2020|Voice of San Diego
“Trading Stories” Jumpa Lahiri, The New Yorker Notes from a literary apprenticeship.
This Week’s Best Reads|David Sessions|June 17, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Some Times insiders say the blunt-spoken Abramson was getting impatient with the long apprenticeship.
Jill Abramson: The NYT's New Executive Editor|Howard Kurtz|June 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Susur learned how to cook while serving his culinary apprenticeship at Hong Kong's renowned Peninsula Hotel.
Fresh Picks|Susur Lee|December 8, 2009|DAILY BEAST
This can be community college or a four-year school; vocational training or an apprenticeship.
'We Will Recover'|Barack Obama|February 25, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Accordingly the future Marshal served his apprenticeship to arms under officers who knew their service and loved it.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
It was proposed, he said, to place the slave for a limited time in an intermediate state of apprenticeship.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III.|E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
Beyond this there is no suggestion of policy, either for the blind or for the deaf and dumb, except as regards apprenticeship.
English Poor Law Policy|Sidney Webb
The deaf and dumb did not need to be taught to read and write before being eligible for apprenticeship.
English Poor Law Policy|Sidney Webb
Thus she served her apprenticeship in that double-faced policy which was ever the secret motor of her life.
Catherine de' Medici|Honore de Balzac

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