apprenticing

Variant of apprentice

apprentice definition

ap·pren·tice (ə pren′tis)

noun

  1. 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
  2. a person who is acquiring a trade, craft, or skill under specified conditions, usually as a member of a labor union
  3. any learner or beginner; novice

Etymology: ME aprentis < OFr aprentiz < aprendre, learn < L apprehendere, apprehend

transitive verb apprenticed -·ticed, apprenticing -·tic·ing

to place or accept as an apprentice

intransitive verb

to work or train as an apprentice

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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