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apprentice

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ap·pren·tice  (-prnts)
n.
1. One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.
2. One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labor union.
3. A beginner; a learner.
tr.v. ap·pren·ticed, ap·pren·tic·ing, ap·pren·tic·es
To place or take on as a beginner or learner.

[Middle English apprentis, from Old French aprentis, from Vulgar Latin *apprnditcius, from *apprnditus, alteration of Latin apprehnsus, past participle of apprehendere, to seize; see apprehend.]

ap·prentice·ship n.

apprentice
Noun
someone who works for a skilled person for a fixed period in order to learn his or her trade
Verb
[-ticing, -ticed]
to take or place as an apprentice [Old French aprendre to learn]
apprenticeship n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.apprenticeapprentice - works for an expert to learn a trade
beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro, novice - someone new to a field or activity
printer's devil - an apprentice in a printing establishment
Verb1.apprenticeapprentice - be or work as an apprentice; "She apprenticed with the great master"
train, prepare - undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession; "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid"

apprentice
Translations
Spanish apprentice [əˈprɛntɪs] naprendiz(a) m/f
vt to be apprenticed to → estar de aprendiz con

French apprentice [əˈprɛntɪs] napprenti m
vt to be apprenticed to → être en apprentissage chez

German apprentice [əˈprɛntɪs] nLehrling m, Auszubildende(r) f(m)
vt to be apprenticed to sb → bei jdm in der Lehre sein

Italian apprentice [əˈprɛntɪs] napprendista m/f
vt to be apprenticed to → lavorare come apprendista presso

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Such trains of oaths would come rolling and pealing over the way, sometimes, when he was denouncing the idleness of the bony apprentice with the thin legs, that Nathaniel Pipkin would shake in his shoes with horror, and the hair of the pupils' heads would stand on end with fright.
Jim was a plumber's apprentice whose weak chin and hedonistic temperament, coupled with a certain nervous stupidity, promised to take him nowhere in the race for bread and butter.
The moment was at the close of a summer's day just before supper, which, in our house, we had lawlessly late, and the place was the kitchen where my mother was going about her work, and listening as she could to what my father was telling my brother and me and an apprentice of ours, who was like a brother to us both, of a book that he had once read.
 
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