Apprenticeship
[ə'prentɪ(s)ʃɪp] or [ə'prɛntɪʃɪp]
Definition
(n.) The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.
(n.) The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
Editor: Martin
Examples
- We looked forward to the day when I should go out for a ride, as we had once looked forward to the day of my apprenticeship. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He was from Grimsby, as I told you, and he served his apprenticeship there. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Twenty years' apprenticeship in the school of Plato had sharpened his logical powers and added to his stock of general ideas, but had not taught him to distrust his senses. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- To have served an apprenticeship in the town, under a master properly qualified, is commonly the necessary requisite for obtaining this freedom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The statute of apprenticeship obstructs the free circulation of labour from one employment to another, even in the same place. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- During the continuance of the apprenticeship, the whole labour of the apprentice belongs to his master. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He generally looks at these, but never thinks it worth while to enquire whether the workman had served a seven years apprenticeship. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A long term of apprenticeship restrains it more indirectly, but as effectually, by increasing the expense of education. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When this is done, it is generally the effect of fraud, and not of inability; and the longest apprenticeship can give no security against fraud. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I missed it somehow in a bad apprenticeship, and now don't care about it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was called apprenticeship rather than education, or else just learning from experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His brother, Dr. John Davy bears witness that the following is transcribed from a notebook of Humphry's, bearing the date of the same y ear as his apprenticeship (1795):-- 1. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- No independent workman, it is evident, whether labourer or artificer, is likely to gain any new settlement, either by apprenticeship or by service. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I only wanted you to know that I am doing very well in my apprenticeship, and am always much obliged to you. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The institution of long apprenticeships has no tendency to form young people to industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The institution of long apprenticeships can give no security that insufficient workmanship shall not frequently be exposed to public sale. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In Scotland, there is no general law which regulates universally the duration of apprenticeships. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Apprenticeships were altogether unknown to the ancients. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In France, the duration of apprenticeships is different in different towns and in different trades. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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