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pupilages

pupilages is the plural of pupilage.

Meaning of pupilage

Noun

pupilage (countable and uncountable, plural pupilages)

  1. The condition of being a pupil.
    • In 1875, however, he left the firm and as he was still under 21, it was arranged that he should serve an additional pupilage, this time with the Midland Railway under S. W. Johnson, who had migrated to Derby from the Great Eastern two years before.1944 September and October, “The Late R. M. Deeley”, in Railway Magazine, page 265
  2. The period during which one is a pupil.
    • A pupilage was normally two years, after three or four years as a premium apprentice.1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 282

Questions about pupilages

What is pupilages the plural of?
Pupilages is the plural of pupilage.

Words near pupilages in the dictionary

  1. pupil premium
  2. pupil premiums
  3. pupil teacher
  4. pupil teachers
  5. pupilage
  6. pupilages
  7. pupilar
  8. pupilary
  9. pupildom
  10. pupiled
  11. pupiless

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