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prenticeship

prenticeship is the obsolete form of apprenticeship.

Meaning of apprenticeship

Noun

apprenticeship (plural apprenticeships)

  1. The condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice.
  2. 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.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Anticipation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 41

Forms of prenticeship

pluralprenticeships

Origin of prenticeship

From prentice + -ship.

Questions about prenticeship

What is prenticeship the obsolete form of?
Prenticeship is the obsolete form of apprenticeship.

Words near prenticeship in the dictionary

  1. prensation
  2. prensations
  3. prentice
  4. prenticed
  5. prentices
  6. prenticeship
  7. prenticeships
  8. prenticing
  9. Prentiss
  10. Prentiss County
  11. Prenton

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