What does apprenticeship mean?
Word: Apprenticeship
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Apprenticeship means a period in which a young person works for an expert to learn a trade or skill, often for a small wage.
How do you spell apprenticeship?
Syllables: ap - pren - tice - ship
Tricky part: It begins with a double p, as in apply and approve. With one p, aprenticeship is a common slip.
Watch out for: aprenticeship, apperenticeship
Memory tip: Apprentice goes back, through French, to the Latin verb that also gave apprehend, 'to take hold of': an apprentice takes hold of a trade, and both words open with app.
Apprenticeship in a sentence
Example 1: My cousin is doing an apprenticeship with an aircraft engineering firm in Bengaluru.
Example 2: Ustad ji says a real apprenticeship in tabla never truly ends.
Example 3: The company pays a small wage during the apprenticeship.
Fun Fact
In England a law of 1563 set seven years as the shortest apprenticeship for most trades, and the learner usually lived in the master's house for the whole time.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Only one of these words takes the suffix ship to make a real word. Choose it.
ship
a) apprentice
b) cook
c) pupil
d) baker
Show answer
a) apprentice. Adding ship to apprentice names the whole time spent learning; pupilship, cookship and bakership are not words.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
appren_ic_ship
a) t, i
b) c, e
c) s, e
d) t, e
Show answer
d) t, e. The middle part is spelt tice, as in practice and notice.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word apprenticeship as used in the sentence:
Meera's apprenticeship at a pottery in Khurja lasted three years.
a) competition
b) retirement
c) holiday
d) traineeship
Show answer
d) traineeship. An apprenticeship is a time of training under an expert, a traineeship; retirement and a holiday are times away from work.
Mingle-Mangle
Which word do the jumbled letters in the sentence spell?
The tailor offered Salma an aeinhppctpisre in his workshop, where she learnt to cut and stitch cloth.
a) apprenticeship
b) apprehension
c) appointment
d) appreciation
Show answer
a) apprenticeship. Appreciation has no s or h, apprehension has no t or c, and appointment needs an m and an o; only apprenticeship fits.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these people is doing an apprenticeship?
a) a trainee electrician on a site
b) a tourist taking photos of a fort
c) a retired teacher reading at home
d) a shopper buying a new phone
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a) a trainee electrician on a site
2. At the end of an apprenticeship, a person usually ____.
a) moves to another country
b) starts school all over again
c) is qualified to do the job alone
d) pays back the cost of the course
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c) is qualified to do the job alone
