apprentice

A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.

• Scottish rail suppliers have told the Government that they can only reach their target of employing 500 apprentices if they are given a clear pipeline of work, rather than having to endure the current stop-go programme.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a tradesperson, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.historical

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.dated

To put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.transitive

• His father had apprenticed him to a silk merchant.
• He was apprenticed to a local employer.

To be an apprentice to.transitive

• Joe apprenticed three different photographers before setting up his own studio.