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apprenticeship en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /əˈpɹɛn.tɪʃ.ʃɪp/
  • (General-American) audio
  • /əˈpɹɛn.tɪs.ʃɪp/

Etymology

Etymology tree English apprentice Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English apprenticeship From apprentice + -ship.

Meanings

  1. The condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice.
  2. The system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions.
    • Entry to shop grades is by apprenticeship, boys bring taken as apprentices on leaving school. 1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 206:
    • There, however, he had disappointed expectation. In sooth, his genius was of too creative an order for the apprenticeship of learning; he needed life in its hopes, its fears, its endurance; all that the poet learns to reproduce. 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Anticipation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 41:
    • Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs. 2023 March 8, Neil Robertson, “Tackling the skills shortage”, in RAIL, number 978, page 33:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
apprenticeships Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

journeymanship · mastership · mastery · pre-apprenticeship

Deriveds

pre-apprenticeship

Hypernyms

education · training

Translations (37)

pt aprendizado (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · ru стажировка (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · fr apprentissage (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · tr çıraklık (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · it tirocinio (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · gd preantasachd (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · de Stage (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · ro ucenicie (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · gd tàilleabhachd (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · de Ausbildung (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · wa stadje (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · sw uanagenzi (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · wa aprindissaedje (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · es aprendizaje (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · wa stadje (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · pt aprendizado (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · it apprendistato (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · sw uanagenzi (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · gd preantasachd (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · ru стажировка (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · de Lehrstelle (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · ca aprenentatge (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · nl stage (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · de Lehre (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · de Lehre (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · nl stage (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · ca aprenentatge (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · fr apprentissage (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · gd tàilleabhachd (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · fi oppisopimus (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · de Ausbildungszeit (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · es formación profesional (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · fi harjoittelu (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · de Lehrzeit (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice) · de Stage (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · pt aprendizagem (system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed) · es tiempo como aprendiz (condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice)