learner

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inexperienced people and lack of experience
beginner
dilettante
freshman
functional illiterate
laywoman
lightweight
muggle
naïf
neophyte
non-expert
non-philosopher
nonspecialist
not know the meaning of the wordidiom
novice
the blind leading the blindidiom
underexposed
uninitiated
virgin
virgin territoryidiom
virginity

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Students & pupils
apprentice
verb[ Tusually passive ]
 old-fashioneduk /əˈpren.tɪs/ us /əˈpren.t̬ɪs/
to make someone an apprentice: 使当学徒
Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio in Florence for three years.米开朗基罗曾在佛罗伦萨师从吉兰达约三年。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Teaching in general
asynchronous
chief academic officer
CLIL
clue
clue in
communicative
didactic
hothouse
miseducation
Moodle
multi-course
non-conditioned
non-didactic
popularize
sex ed
sex education
show/teach someone the ropesidiom
socialization
socializing
tutelage

apprentice | American Dictionary

apprentice
noun[ C ]
us/əˈpren·tɪs/
someone who works for an expert to learn a particular skill or job:
He worked for two years as a plumber’s apprentice

apprentice

verb[ I/T ]us/əˈpren·tɪs/
[ I ]I apprenticed with my father, who was a stonemason.

apprentice | Business English

apprentice
noun[ C ]
 HRuk /əˈprentɪs/us
someone who works for an employer for an agreed period of time in order to learn a new skill, often for a low wage:
He formerly worked as a machinist apprentice in Boeing's Everett assembly plant.
The 1,200-member ironworkers union has some 300 apprentices in various stages of training.

Examples of apprentice

apprentice
On the other hand, active skilled workers and apprentices (enrolled in the skilled workers' training school) held longer tenures.
Skilled workers had to have at least three months of employment experience, apprentices at least half a year, and common laborers at least a year.
Official ecoles de coiffure, run by the municipalities or the syndicate, turned out debutants by the thousands, and individual coiffeurs occasionally trained their own apprentices.
Many testators were in their dotage, of course, but a good proportion died young, still apprenticed, perhaps mentioning parents, siblings and, sometimes, a betrothed.
There apprentices had to be ingeboekt (registered) in front of an official, indentures were not allowed to change hands.
Rather, they were masters in command over apprentices.
In the classical training of artists, apprentices would draw or paint the works of great masters in the museum to understand technique and composition.
Many young people spent long periods of their lives as servants or apprentices.
Besides workers employed in the sawmill industry, this category mainly includes apprentices and sailors, who travelled between towns or harbours.
Apprenticeship registers record tiny numbers of girls receiving training and rather more women taking apprentices, usually as widows.
However, the registers also reveal a substantially higher proportion of women among those taking apprentices than among those apprenticed.
The differing fortunes of ' normal ' (an unfortunate and puzzling term), pauper and charity apprentices are treated throughout.
The man asked for the apprentices of the builder who were wearing blue overalls.
He had of course always taken in apprentices in the conventional potting crafts.
However, he tires of the boy and decides to get rid of him by apprenticing him to an establishment for unwanted pauper children.
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