0 a period of time working as an apprentice
1 a period of time working as an apprentice:
serve/complete an apprenticeship He is now serving an apprenticeship as a joiner.
get an apprenticeship My father believed that if I got an apprenticeship to a proper trade I'd be financially secure for life.
an engineering/construction/plumber's apprenticeship
Traditionally, the Japanese learn a job or a skill through a long training course called an apprenticeship.
The system permits the enlargement of this strategy of apprenticeship by favouring exchanges among peers.
The older models of recruitment into government-patronage and apprenticeship primarily-were no longer sufficient to meet the demands of an increasingly rationalized administrative structure.
It was authorised to regulate apprenticeship, apportion raw materials and control access to artisanal trades.
One of the chief components of a clerical education was just this kind of mastery, since it constituted a primary goal of the student's 'apprenticeship'.
For me it was both an apprenticeship (of a new occupation, that of a composer new to electroacoustics) and an initiation (into acousmatic listening).
The writ of habeas corpus was used in relation to persons press-ganged into the navy, or in disputes over apprenticeship terms.
Among the surviving records of nearly 130,000 apprenticeships between 1600 and 1800, approximately three times as many women took an apprentice as girls were apprenticed.
