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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
articled
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
clerk
▪ Firms began to poach partners and to recruit dozens of assistant solicitors and articled clerks.
▪ They then knock at solicitors' doors, presenting their credentials and asking if there is a vacancy for an articled clerk.
▪ The defendants' articled clerk handled the wife's affairs and negotiated a financial settlement with the husband's solicitors.
▪ Opposite to David's desk stood a smaller one occupied by the articled clerk.
▪ Then Hubert was going to be an articled clerk, straight after school.
▪ He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Firms began to poach partners and to recruit dozens of assistant solicitors and articled clerks.
▪ He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and in 1883 became for three years articled clerk to a London solicitor.
▪ One minute he's an ordinary guy, the next an articled headcase out to kill everyone.
▪ Opposite to David's desk stood a smaller one occupied by the articled clerk.
▪ The defendants' articled clerk handled the wife's affairs and negotiated a financial settlement with the husband's solicitors.
▪ Then Hubert was going to be an articled clerk, straight after school.
▪ They then knock at solicitors' doors, presenting their credentials and asking if there is a vacancy for an articled clerk.
▪ Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Articled

Articled \Ar"ti*cled\, a. Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk.

Articled

Article \Ar"ti*cle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Articled; p. pr. & vb. n. Articling.] [Cf. F. articuler, fr. L. articulare. See Article, n., Articulate.]

  1. To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.

    If all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  2. To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.

    He shall be articled against in the high court of admiralty.
    --Stat. 33 Geo. III.

  3. To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.

Wiktionary
articled
  1. bound under the articles of an apprenticeship v

  2. (en-past of: article)

WordNet
articled

adj. bound by contract [syn: apprenticed, bound, indentured]

Usage examples of "articled".

She is at present apprenticed, Miss Mowcher, or articled, or whatever it may be, to Omer and Joram, Haberdashers, Milliners, and so forth, in this town.

It's some time since I was articled, but the payment of that hundred pounds was a great pull.

And I tell you what, Sir, if I hadn't more of these qualities that commonly endear man to man, than our articled clerk has, I'd steal a Cheshire cheese, tie it round my neck, and drown myself.

The chartered accountants whom Albert Nixon had employed for thirty years happened to have a vacancy for an articled pupil, and would take Philip for a fee of three hundred pounds.

His son was at Cambridge, he'd sent him to Rugby, fine school Rugby, nice class of boys there, in a couple of years his son would be articled, that would be nice for Philip, he'd like his son, thorough sportsman.

Kenge and Carboy are out of town, and the articled clerk has taken out a shooting license and gone down to his father's, and Mr.

Rebecca was seventeen when she came to Chiswick, and was bound over as an articled pupil.

He did not see the sneer of contempt which passed all round the room, from the first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white-faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate there tapping his boot with his cane, and thinking what a parcel of miserable poor devils these were.

Buffle's articled young gentleman, that it WAS whispered that Miss Buffle would go either into a consumption or a convent she being so very thin and off her appetite and two closeshaved gentlemen with white bands round their necks peeping round the corner whenever she went out in waistcoats resembling black pinafores.

Buffle's articled young gentleman in another blanket--him a holding round the necks of two men carrying him by the legs, similar to the picter of the disgraceful creetur who has lost the fight (but where the chair I do not know) and his hair having the appearance of newly played upon.

The articled young gentleman's head was a little light and he sat a moaning "Robina is reduced to cinders, Robina is reduced to cinders!

And I tell you what, sir, if I hadn’t more of these qualities that commonly endear man to man, than our articled clerk has, I’d steal a Cheshire cheese, tie it round my neck, and drown myself.

In attendance, balanced on my insecure furniture, were ' Shady" Nooks, a silver haired and suntanned person who also sported a large gold wristwatch, and his articled clerk, Miss Stebbings, a nice-looking girl fresh from law school, who had clearly no idea what area of the law she had got into.