apprenticeship
nounnoun NAmE//əˈprɛntəʃˌʃɪp//
, NAmE//əˈprɛntəˌʃɪp//
[countable, uncountable]
jump to other results a period of time working as an apprentice; a job as an apprentice She was in the second year of her apprenticeship as a carpenter. He had served his apprenticeship as a plumber. Apprenticeships were becoming more difficult to find.
See apprenticeship in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary