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apprentice

noun as in novice/learner of a trade

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Holly Walker, an apprentice ski guide with the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides and a former ski patroller at Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort, opts to wear her device in-bounds, too.

Master artists taught apprentices “how to draw, make the composition and pose the colors.”

For instance, wage subsidies would enable employers to take on the risk of hiring apprentices, a practice that used to be common but is now rare in the United States.

Easily the story’s most fascinating character, Lydia has plenty to say about fate but thrives by imposing her will on others—including Anna, whom she manipulates into becoming her apprentice.

From Time

Without being overbearing or assertive, Gerace had gently taken us under his wing for our full education, both within science and without, as the master painters did with their apprentices in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Whatever the excuse, in 2008 we were all subjected to Celebrity Apprentice.

Cocker, for his part, worked briefly as an apprentice gasfitter but decided to take the plunge into the world of commercial music.

The former apprentice engineer retained a lifelong interest in the way things worked.

Now, the onetime Lloyd Kaufman/Troma apprentice is the toast of Tinseltown.

At one point, the host of Celebrity Apprentice that Tea Partiers need to stop supporting doomed candidates.

The young apprentice was of middle height, very well built, amazingly active, and able to bear the utmost fatigue.

If she lasts a couple of hours, I shall be surprised, said the apothecarys apprentice, intent upon the toothpicks point.

He was an apprentice to a wig and curl maker, when Whitefield attracted his attention, and he became a methodist preacher.

Shortly after this the youngest apprentice went below, and found the ill-used lad standing on a locker, and gibbering fearfully.

An apprentice who is qualifying himself to operate an elevator is an employee within the Minnesota Act.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to apprentice, such as: pupil, amateur, beginner, flunky/flunkey, greenhorn, and heel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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