apprenticeship

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English apprentice Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English apprenticeship From apprentice + -ship.

1. The condition of, or the time served by, an apprentice.
2. The system by which a person learning a craft or trade is instructed by a master for a set time under set conditions.

   “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.”

   “Entry to shop grades is by apprenticeship, boys bring taken as apprentices on leaving school.”