Definition of Apprenticeship

1. Noun. The position of apprentice.

Generic synonyms: Berth, Billet, Office, Place, Position, Post, Situation, Spot
Derivative terms: Apprentice

Definition of Apprenticeship

1. n. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

Definition of Apprenticeship

1. Noun. the condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice ¹

2. Noun. the system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apprenticeship

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apprenticeship

apprehensible
apprehensibly
apprehension
apprehensions
apprehensive
apprehensively
apprehensiveness
apprentice
apprentice(a)
apprenticeage
apprenticed
apprenticehood
apprenticehoods
apprenticelike
apprentices
apprenticeship (current term)
apprenticeships
apprenticing
apprentisage
apprentise
appress
appressed
appressed-fibrillose
appressed-fibrillose-striate
appressed-silky
appressed-squamulose
appresses
appressoria
appressorial
appressorium

Literary usage of Apprenticeship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Montana Historical Society, Henry E. Legler Regional Branch, Library, Chicago Public Library, Chicago West Side Historical Society (1916)
"CHAPTER V. TO WHAT EXTENT IS apprenticeship MEETING THE NEED? PART 1— CONDITION OF apprenticeship IN MINNEAPOLIS The main facts regarding apprenticeship for ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"The system of apprenticeship, as it has existed in England and on the Continent, ... The question of apprenticeship is one of the knotty points of technical ..."

3. Underground notes by Mihajlo Mihajlov (1873)
"Jurisdiction and Powers of Justices in Matters of apprenticeship.—Statutes relating thereto.—Court of Equity no Jurisdiction to cancel Indenture. ..."

4. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1920)
"Valid contracts—apprenticeship. Under the old theory of an infant's contracts, a reasonable contract for teaching him a trade was for his benefit ;1 under ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1837)
"An imperfect contract of apprenticeship exists, where the parties have had a perfect contract of apprenticeship in view, but it has not been thoroughly ..."

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