0 a period of time working as an apprentice --
1 a period of time working as an apprentice: --
an engineering/construction/plumber's apprenticeship
get an apprenticeship My father believed that if I got an apprenticeship to a proper trade I'd be financially secure for life.
serve/complete an apprenticeship He is now serving an apprenticeship as a joiner.
Adolescents had adult mentors as they served in apprenticeships to learn their trade.
The employment of child labour as a form of apprenticeship changed with the age of the child.
Teaching trades and manual skills had traditionally been a privilege of the guilds, in which learning was indistinguishable from apprenticeship.
Individuals with finished apprenticeships are less mobile and people without any qualification even less mobile.
Meanwhile, other charities in the forest parishes were redirected to provide winter fuel for poor villagers rather than apprenticeships for young people.
Instead, the key difference is the way the association was able to mobilize individual firms by using government subsidies to underwrite an apprenticeship in cooperation.
There she gained an apprenticeship in a life of utter poverty, refusing a convent as too luxurious.
This category included persons with manual occupations requiring a relatively long period of apprenticeship or experience.
