| Apprenticeship 1. (n.) The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. (n.) The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one). Thesaurus Entries basic training, binding over, breaking, breeding, conditioning, cultivation, development, discipline, drill, drilling, exercise, fetching-up, fostering, grooming, housebreaking, improvement, in-service training, indenture, manual training, military training, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, practice, preparation, raising, readying, rearing, rehearsal, sloyd, training, upbringing, vocational education, vocational training |