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apprenticeship

Form of training where young workers, ‘apprentices’, are taken on by an employer and trained to a given level of competence in a particular trade or profession. Training can be a mixture of on-the-job and off-the-job training.

Apprenticeships began with medieval craft guilds, where for seven years an apprentice lived with a master before becoming a journeyman and employed for a wage.



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Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
You remember what you told me long ago, that I must serve my apprenticeship to writing.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
"An aristocrat need not be ashamed of the trade," observed Laurence; "for the Czar Peter the Great once served an apprenticeship to it.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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