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Apprenticeship

//əˈpɹɛn.tɪs.ʃɪp// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice.
  2. 2
    the position of apprentice wordnet
  3. 3
    The system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions.

    "There, however, he had disappointed expectation. In sooth, his genius was of too creative an order for the apprenticeship of learning; he needed life in its hopes, its fears, its endurance; all that the poet learns to reproduce."

Etymology

From apprentice + -ship.

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