Other forms: apprenticeships
An apprenticeship is years of learning a craft by working beside a master. Serve an apprenticeship, a modern apprenticeship, complete the apprenticeship.
The old form ran seven years and ended with the apprentice free to work as a journeyman. Modern schemes combine paid work with study and are now offered at degree level in Britain.
1nounapprenticeshipYears of learning a craft by working beside a master.
“He left school at sixteen to start an apprenticeship with a local carpenter.”
apprenticeship is a training.
Old French
aprentis
Middle English
apprentice
English
apprentice
English, today
apprenticeship
From apprentice + -ship. apprentice comes from Middle English apprentice, apprentesse, apprentyse, apprentis, from Old French aprentis, plural of aprentif, from Old French aprendre, Latin apprendō, from Classical Latin apprehendō. Compare typologically discipulus (akin to capiō); ухвати́ть, нахвата́ться, схва́тывать на лету́, and, for another aspect, быть на подхва́те (both akin to хвата́ть).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA