Crossword clues for apprenticeship
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apprenticeship \Ap*pren"tice*ship\, 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.
The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from apprentice (n.) + -ship. Replaced earlier apprenticehood (late 14c., with -hood).
Wiktionary
n. 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
WordNet
n. the position of apprentice
Wikipedia
An apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). Apprenticeship also enables practitioners to gain a license to practice in a regulated profession. Most of their training is done while working for an employer who helps the apprentices learn their trade or profession, in exchange for their continued labor for an agreed period after they have achieved measurable competencies. Apprenticeships typically last 3 to 6 years. People who successfully complete an apprenticeship reach the journeyman level of competence.
Although the formal boundaries and terminology of the apprentice/journeyman/master system often do not extend outside of guilds and trade unions, the concept of on-the-job training leading to competence over a period of years is found in any field of skilled labor.
In early modern usage, the clipped form prentice was common.
Usage examples of "apprenticeship".
This man can then do all the unskilled work in the garage, as if he were an apprentice on the first day of his apprenticeship.
Anyone could apply for an apprenticeship and stand a reasonable chance of being accepted, virtually every apprentice became a wizard, and all wizards were accepted as equals, regardless of whether they had been born to princes, peasants, or even other wizards.
He had attempted no magical tracking since his apprenticeship and had never taken the time even then to become good at it.
Acting on a trained reflex he had had drummed into him throughout his apprenticeship, he flung up a defensive shield without thinking, a telekinetic barrier against anything solid that might come his way.
The time of Choosing, when the boys of the town and keep were taken into apprenticeship, was close, and Pug became excited as he said, This Midsummers Day I hope to take the Dukes service under Swordmaster Fannon.
I would have thought you still a year or two away from apprenticeship, Pug.
The two young men were six and four years older than the apprentices, the Duke having wed late, but the difference between the awkward candidates for apprenticeship and the sons of the Duke was much more than a few years in age.
People from the town and keep passed, offering congratulations on the boys apprenticeship and wishing them a good new year.
Everything in his life had taken a turn for the better since his apprenticeship, except the single most important thing, his studies.
He had nearly completed his twenty years of apprenticeship and would soon be ready to fill a position in the Coven that might open.
During her apprenticeship, the witch had to serve a year and a day, sometimes longer, with each member of the Coven.
She had begun her apprenticeship in the Massachusetts Coven, but when she came of age, she moved to San Francisco to complete her training.
At the begin- ning of my apprenticeship, he once built two small fires in the mountains of northern Mexico.
I was raised by a mage, and yet, before my apprenticeship, I knew little about the hawks and owls with which I would one day bind.
I had been attending the Gatherings for a number of years with my grandmother and mother, and I was in the early months of my apprenticeship with Lynwen.