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ap·pren·tice

(ə-prĕn′tĭs)
n.
1. One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.
2. One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labor union.
3. A beginner; a learner.
v. ap·pren·ticed, ap·pren·tic·ing, ap·pren·tic·es
v.intr.
To work as an apprentice: She apprenticed at the ceramics studio.
v.tr.
To engage as an apprentice: In colonial times many children were apprenticed to craftsmen.

[Middle English apprentis, from Old French aprentis, from Vulgar Latin *apprēnditīcius, from *apprēnditus, alteration of Latin apprehēnsus, past participle of apprehendere, to seize; see apprehend.]

ap·pren′tice·ship′ n.
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Noun 1. [画像:apprenticeship - the position of apprentice]apprenticeship - the position of apprentice
berth, billet, post, situation, position, office, place, spot - a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
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apprenticeship

noun traineeship, probation, studentship, novitiate or noviciate He served an apprenticeship as a tool-maker.
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Translations
تَدَرُّب عَلى مِهْنَه
učňovství
læretidlærlingetid
tanulóidõ
lærlingsstaîa, læri
učňovstvo
çıraklık

apprenticeship

[əˈprentɪʃɪp] Naprendizaje m
to serve one's apprenticeshiphacer el aprendizaje
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apprenticeship

[əˈprɛntɪsʃɪp] napprentissage m
to serve one's apprenticeship → faire son apprentissage
to serve one's apprenticeship as sth → faire son apprentissage de qch
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apprenticeship

nLehre f, → Lehrzeit f; to serve one’s apprenticeshipseine Lehre or Lehrzeit absolvieren or machen
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apprenticeship

[əˈprɛntɪsˌʃɪp] napprendistato, tirocinio
to serve one's apprenticeship → fare il proprio apprendistato or tirocinio
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apprentice

(əˈprentis) noun
a (usually young) person who is learning a trade. vakleerling تِلْميذ ما زال يَتَعَلَّم صَنْعَه чирак aprendiz učeň, učedník der/die Auszubildende(r) lærling μαθητευόμενος aprendiz õpipoiss شاگرد؛ نوآموز harjoittelija apprenti/-ie שוּלִיָיה प्रशिक्षु naučnik tanuló magang lærlingur apprendista 見習い 견습생 mokinys, pameistrys māceklis perantis leerjongen lærling terminator, uczeń زده کوونکی aprendiz ucenic ученик, подмастерье učeň, -nica vajenec šegrt lärling ผู้ฝึกงาน çırak 學徒 учень, підмайстер نو آموز ، کار آموز người học việc 学徒
verb
to make (someone) an apprentice. His father apprenticed him to an engineer. as vakleerling gee يَضَع تَحْت التَّدْريب чиракувам colocar como aprendiz dát do učení in die Lehre geben sætte i lære κάνω κπ. μαθητευόμενο poner de aprendiz õpipoisiks andma به شاگردی پذیرفتن esittää harjoittelijaksi mettre en apprentissage לְהַכנִיס כֱשְוּלִיָיה प्रशिक्षु बनाना izučiti tanulónak ad memagangkan taka í læri mettere a fare pratica, collocare come apprendista 見習いに出す 도제로 삼다 išleisti mokytis (amato) nodot mācībā (par mācekli) memperantiskannya in de leer doen sette i lære oddać do terminu په شاګردی باندی قبلول pôr como aprendiz a da în ucenicie отдавать в учение dať do učenia dati v uk učiti zanat (kod nekoga) sätta i lära ฝึกงานเป็น çırak olarak vermek 使(某人)當學徒 віддавати в науку نو آموز کاری کے لئے لگانا cho học việc 使当学徒
apˈprenticeship noun
the state of being, or the time during which a person is, an apprentice. He is serving his apprenticeship as a mechanic. vakleerlingskap تَدَرُّب عَلى مِهْنَه чиракуване aprendizagem učňovství die Lehre læretid; lærlingetid μαθητεία aprendizaje õpiaeg شاگردی harjoittelujakso apprentissage חניכות एप्रेन्टिसशिप naukovanje tanulóidő menjadi magang lærlingsstaða, læri apprendistato 見習期間 도제 buvimas mokiniu/pameistriu, mokymasis amato mācekļa gadi; mācību laiks perantisan leertijd lære, lærlingkontrakt termin, nauka rzemiosła شاګردی aprendizagem ucenicie ученичество učňovstvo vajeniška doba pripravnički staž lärlingskap, lärlingstid การฝึกงาน çıraklık 學徒身份或見習期 роки навчання نو آموز گاری sự học việc 学徒身份,学徒期或见习期
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Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.
He began, at an early age, as a clerk, and served an apprenticeship of seven years, for which he received one hundred pounds sterling, was maintained at the expense of the company, and furnished with suitable clothing and equipments.
"An aristocrat need not be ashamed of the trade," observed Laurence; "for the Czar Peter the Great once served an apprenticeship to it."
Twenty years of unwilling apprenticeship had been required to make my system rebelliously tolerant of alcohol, to make me, in the heart and the deeps of me, desirous of alcohol.
(And indeed he had served three years as clerk to an attorney in the north of Ireland, when, chusing a genteeler walk in life, he quitted his master, came over to England, and set up that business which requires no apprenticeship, namely, that of a gentleman, in which he had succeeded, as hath been already partly mentioned.)
David Faux, even before his apprenticeship was ended.
Trefusis mentioned that the apprenticeship of a mason was quite as long, twice as laborious, and not half so pleasant.
"Excuse me, my dear governor; but you speak a language which requires quite an apprenticeship to understand."
It shall be on your family's behalf that I'll start my apprenticeship as old maid."
Bumble, when the lady brought her eyes down to earth again; 'the only thing that can be done now, that I know of, is to leave him in the cellar for a day or so, till he's a little starved down; and then to take him out, and keep him on gruel all through the apprenticeship. He comes of a bad family.
He got no new clothing during his apprenticeship, but on his graduation day his master tricked him out in spang-new tow-linens and made him feel unspeakably rich and fine.
de Treville's hotel, "at least I have entered upon my apprenticeship, haven't I?"

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