apprentice
apprentice
Definition
ap·pren·tice (ə pren′tis)
noun
- a person under legal agreement to work a specified length of time for a master craftsman in a craft or trade in return for instruction and, formerly, support
- a person who is acquiring a trade, craft, or skill under specified conditions, usually as a member of a labor union
- any learner or beginner; novice
Etymology: ME aprentis < OFr aprentiz < aprendre, learn < L apprehendere, apprehend
transitive verb -·ticed, -·tic·ing
to place or accept as an apprentice
intransitive verb
to work or train as an apprentice
ap·pren′·tice·ship′ noun
apprentice
Synonyms
apprentice
Usage Examples
Possessives
- sorcerer: Chirac played the sorcerer's apprentice by making the main axis of his campaign law and order, a longstanding theme of the FN.
Converse of object
- indenture: So at the age of fifteen, he signed up with his father's approval as an indentured apprentice onboard the " Oneida " .
- bind: Children are generally bound apprentices at 9 or 10.
- recruit: Alternatively, GRAHAM Training can recruit a modern apprentice on behalf of an organization.
- employ: Employed apprentices over 19 who have completed the first year of their apprenticeship must be paid the national minimum wage.
- train: The Royal School trains eight Apprentices a year with two overseas students per intake.
- become: Caroline Benton has notched up a first for Southern Water by becoming the first female apprentice to qualify.
Adjective modifier
- former: He says Poeton can also point to a large proportion of jobs at all levels within the company that are filled by former apprentices.
- modern: I'm aged between 16 & 25 can I become a modern apprentice?
- young: He has spent over thirty years with the company, rising through the ranks from a young apprentice to becoming managing director.
- female: Caroline Benton has notched up a first for Southern Water by becoming the first female apprentice to qualify.
- old: He lived there with his 13 year old apprentice Andrew Morton, originally from Louth.
Modifies a noun
- joiner: Ian joined the company 23 years ago as an apprentice joiner.
- fitter: Ossie began his working career as an apprentice aircraft fitter with British Aerospace.
- electrician: Maurice Bailey began work there as an apprentice electrician in 1942.
- carpenter: I started work in 1959 as an apprentice carpenter and joiner, had excellent training with quality tradesmen and a wide range of contract.
- plumber: On leaving school he spent 4 years as an apprentice plumber.
- mechanic: Wise, who is an apprentice mechanic, narrowly escaped custody when he appeared before Carlisle magistrates.
Noun used with modifier
- engineering: The company is also the largest employer of engineering apprentices in the UK.
- craft: She started at BAE Systems as a craft apprentice and rapidly moved to become a skilled flight test engineer on Eurofighter Typhoon aircrafts.
apprentice Quotes
Here I must say, in my eighty-sixth year, I do not feel greatly different from when I was eighty-five. This is my final word. It is time for me to become an apprentice once more. I have not settled in which direction. But somewhere, sometime soon.
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