Apprentice

n. trainee, pupil

v. engage as an apprentice ; work as an apprentice

This article is about the practice of apprenticeship. For other uses, see The Apprentice (disambiguation). Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled crafts practitioners, which is still popular in some countries. Apprentices (or in early modern usage "prentices") build their careers from apprenticeships. Most of their training is done on the job while working for an employer who helps the apprentices learn their trade. Often some informal, theoretical education is also involved.
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Noun
1. works for an expert to learn a trade
(synonym) learner, prentice
(hypernym) novice, beginner, tyro, tiro, initiate
(hyponym) printer's devil
Verb
1. be or work as an apprentice; "She apprenticed with the great master"
(hypernym) train, prepare
(derivation) learner, prentice
Adjective
1. in training; "an apprentice carpenter"
(synonym) apprentice(a)
(similar) inexperienced

(v. t.)
To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
  

(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.
  

The first rung on the guild structure ladder. An apprentice served his master for numerous years, generally seven or more, to work of the debt of his training. Following a successful apprenticeship, the apprentice became a journeyman , eventually working to try to become a Master of his craft.