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  • noun Plural form of apprentice.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apprentice.

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Examples

  • Ryan Hewson and Christian Butler, apprentices from the FLW School of Architecture, wanted to show us the early progress on their new shelters at the estate.

    October 2007 2007

  • Ryan Hewson and Christian Butler, apprentices from the FLW School of Architecture, wanted to show us the early progress on their new shelters at the estate.

    PrairieMod Photo Journal: A Fall Weekend at Taliesin in Spring Green, WI 2007

  • Given the ease of importing twenty or more unskilled apprentices from the House of Refuge or a similar institution, it is not surprising that Burt doubted the ability of journeymen weavers to obtain breadwinning wages without regulating the labor pool.

    Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

  • "Aye, if you call the apprentices so, young shaver," said Mr Capstan with an ironical grin which did not improve his rather ugly face.

    Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle

  • My mother received me kindly, but said little, for she appeared to be fully occupied; and Virginia had no time to dedicate to me until the breakfast was ready, when she called the apprentices, and we all sat down together, Miss Amelia and her companions looking so demure, that, if I had not seen them before, I should have thought that they could not speak.

    Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

  • My mother received me kindly, but said little, for she appeared to be fully occupied; and Virginia had no time to dedicate to me until the breakfast was ready, when she called the apprentices, and we all sat down together, Miss Amelia and her companions looking so demure, that, if I had not seen them before, I should have thought that they could not speak.

    Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Last year we referred the exemption of apprentices from the National Minimum Wage to the Low Pay Commission.

    Labour Party News 2008

  • Last year we referred the exemption of apprentices from the National Minimum Wage to the Low Pay Commission.

    Labour Party News 2008

  • River Valley, and there having called the apprentices together, made the following proposals to them respecting their free children, the rector acting as spokesman.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • The amount paid by the apprentices is a proof of the extent of the exertions and sacrifices they are willing to make for freedom, which can scarcely be appreciated by those who are unacquainted with the disadvantages of their previous condition.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

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