ARTICLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does articled mean? 

• ARTICLED (adjective)
  The adjective ARTICLED has 1 sense:

1. bound by contract

  Familiarity information: ARTICLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTICLED (adjective)

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 

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

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We articled clerks, as germs of the patrician order of proctors, were treated with so much consideration, that I was almost my own master at all times.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On the day when I was articled, no festivity took place, beyond my having sandwiches and sherry into the office for the clerks, and going alone to the theatre at night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was articled to Spenlow and Jorkins.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Then, when your articled time is over, you'll be a regular lawyer, I suppose?” said I.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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)

I suppose, sir, said I, still desiring to spare my aunt, that it is not the custom here, if an articled clerk were particularly useful, and made himself a perfect master of his profession—I could not help blushing, this looked so like praising myself—I suppose it is not the custom, in the later years of his time, to allow him any— Mr. Spenlow, by a great effort, just lifted his head far enough out of his cravat to shake it, and answered, anticipating the word “salary”: No.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)