apprentice
noun
a person who works for another in order to learn a trade.
apprenticing
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present participleof apprentice.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The boys’ father started his life in a Lower East Side tenement before apprenticing as a lawyer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
In the 1990s, Morot had given the town a shot, apprenticing with other designers, learning his craft and drinking in the city until he needed to move back to Canada for family reasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Some say she has been apprenticing as a cobbler in the Italian countryside; others, that she’s formed an ice cave—and won the trust of indigenous penguin tribes—in Antarctica.
From Slate ● May 25, 2024
By the next year, she was studying at Tokyo University of the Arts and apprenticing at Handa Kyuseido, a relative newcomer in the multigenerational-family conservator field.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
He became a woodworker, apprenticing at a nearby shop owned by a broad-minded Unitarian.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
