apprentice
/əˈpɹɛntɪs/ verb C1- To put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business. · His father had apprenticed him to a silk merchant.· He was apprenticed to a local employer.
- To be an apprentice to. · Joe apprenticed three different photographers before setting up his own studio.
He/she/it apprentices · Past apprenticed · Past participle apprenticed · -ing form apprenticing
Verb forms
- Base form
- apprentice
- He/she/it
- apprentices
- Past
- apprenticed
- Past participle
- apprenticed
- -ing form
- apprenticing
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Elara, a diligent apprentice with an extraordinary talent for spatial precision, stared intently at the magnificent parchment spread across her mahogany desk.
Turning toward his anxious apprentice, a rare and genuine smile softened the usually stern lines of his weathered face.
Before Samuel Langhorne Clemens became an internationally celebrated literary luminary, he was an apprentice pilot navigating the capricious currents of the Mississippi River.
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