Definition of "apprenticeship"
noun
plural apprenticeships
The system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions.
Quotations
There, however, he had disappointed expectation. In sooth, his genius was of too creative an order for the apprenticeship of learning; he needed life in its hopes, its fears, its endurance; all that the poet learns to reproduce.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Anticipation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 41