Thesaurus: apprentice
One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
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- n. One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
- n. One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.
- n. A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.
- v. t. To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
- n. works for an expert to learn a trade
- v. be or work as an apprentice
- 1. One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him. 2. One not well versed in a subject; a tyro. 3. (Old law) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. [Obs.] Blackstone. To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
- A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years'standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. [Obs.]Blackstone.
- v:11/n:89 n. works for an expert to learn a trade v. be or work as an apprentice