APPRENTICESHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apprenticeship mean? 

• APPRENTICESHIP (noun)
  The noun APPRENTICESHIP has 1 sense:

1. the position of apprentice

  Familiarity information: APPRENTICESHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPRENTICESHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The position of apprentice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("apprenticeship" is a kind of...):

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)

Derivation:

apprentice (works for an expert to learn a trade)

 Context examples 

And my apprenticeship is now served.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I missed it somehow in a bad apprenticeship, and now don't care about it.—You know I have bought a boat down here?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You remember what you told me long ago, that I must serve my apprenticeship to writing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"But no matter how peculiarly constituted a man may be for blacksmithing," she was laughing, "I never heard of one becoming a blacksmith without first serving his apprenticeship."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To shorten my apprenticeship.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)