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APPRENTICED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does apprenticed mean?
• APPRENTICED (adjective)
The adjective APPRENTICED has 1 sense:
1. bound by contract
Familiarity information: APPRENTICED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bound by contract
Synonyms:
apprenticed; articled; bound; indentured
Similar:
unfree (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)
Context examples
I had myself been apprenticed by my former visits to this watching horror; and yet I, who had up to an hour ago repudiated the proofs, felt my heart sink within me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
At last she came here, apprenticed for three years.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
By profession I am a hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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