Apprentice
[ə'prentɪs] or [ə'prɛntɪs]
Definition
(noun.) works for an expert to learn a trade.
(verb.) be or work as an apprentice; 'She apprenticed with the great master'.
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Definition
(n.) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
(n.) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.
(n.) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.
(v. t.) To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
Editor: Timmy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Learner (of a trade).
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Definition
n. one bound to another to learn a trade or art: one learning the rudiments of anything a novice.—v.t. to bind as an apprentice.—ns. Apprent′icehood (Shak.) apprenticeship; Apprent′iceship the state of an apprentice: a term of practical training: specially a period of seven years.—To serve apprenticeship to undergo the training of an apprentice.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you serve as an apprentice, foretells you will have a struggle to win a place among your companions
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Examples
- In the meantime the young physician’s apprentice had been lured away from Penzance. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But the boy was no ordinary apprentice. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- An apprentice is scarce ever married; and it is expressly enacted, that no married servant shall gain any settlement by being hired for a year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He was a poor boy and an apprentice to a wheelwright, and while thus engaged his inventive powers were developed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In Sheffield, no master cutler can have more than one apprentice at a time, by a bye-law of the corporation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There was another old woman watching by the bed; the parish apothecary's apprentice was standing by the fire, making a toothpick out of a quill. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- If she lasts a couple of hours, I shall be surprised,' said the apothecary's apprentice, intent upon the toothpick's point. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The notion of the apprentices was still so odd to me that I asked Caddy if there were many of them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What with schools, and classes here, and private pupils, AND the apprentices, he really has too much to do, poor fellow! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My brother, being yet unmarried, did not keep house, but boarded himself and his apprentices in another family. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Then one evening there was a knock at the door of the living-room, and before he could answer it the door was opened, and the two apprentices, Dritzhn and Hielman, came in. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The limitation of the number of apprentices restrains it directly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Therefore we three adjourned to the apprentices together, and I made one in the dance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He is apprenticed to the miller, whatever it was, and is a good bashful fellow, always falling in love with somebody and being ashamed of it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- At last she came here, apprenticed for three years. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But boys cannot well be apprenticed ultimately: they should be apprenticed at fifteen. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was apprenticed to a good master and made rapid progress, but the climate of London was bad for his health, and as soon as his term of instruction was finished he went back to Scotland. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He was apprenticed to a barber at Bolton, and later took up that business for himself. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I was apprenticed when I was seven year old. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The girls were trained by their mothers, the boys either by their fathers or by some master to whom they were apprenticed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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