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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: aprentis, from aprendre 'to learn', from Latin apprehendere; APPREHEND

apprentice

 noun
     
ap‧pren‧tice [countable]
someone who works for an employer for a fixed period of time in order to learn a particular skill or job:
She works in the hairdresser's as an apprentice.
an apprentice electrician
—apprentice verb [transitive usually passive]
He was apprenticed to a local architect.
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