apprenticenoun [ C ]
uk/əˈpren.tɪs/us/əˈpren.t̬ɪs/someone who has agreed to work for a skilled person for a particular period of time and often for low payment, in order to learn that person's skills:
Most of the work was done by apprentices.
an apprentice carpenter
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Inexperienced people and lack of experience
- beginner
- blind
- dilettante
- freshman
- functional illiterate
- greenhorn
- know
- layman
- laywoman
- lightweight
- neophyte
- newcomer
- probationer
- rookie
- stranger
- the blind leading the blind idiom
- the uninitiated
- upstart
- virgin
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Students & pupils
apprenticeverb [ T usually passive ]
uk/əˈpren.tɪs/us/əˈpren.t̬ɪs/old-fashionedto make someone an apprentice:
Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio in Florence for three years.
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Teaching in general
- brief
- CAL
- CLIL
- clue
- clue sb in
- didactic
- drum
- homeschool
- hothousing
- instruction
- instructional
- special educational needs
- teach
- teach sb a lesson idiom
- that'll teach sb idiom
- tutelage
- upskill
- upskilling
- wean
- wean sb on sth
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