📚 Apprentice, noun. 🔉 /əˈprɛntɪs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages. ❗️ Examples: 1. An apprentice electrician. 2. It doesn't matter how much money we give employers to take on apprentices in tradition trades - in gas fitting, in tiling, in welding and carpentry. 3. It is often asserted that by keeping wages low for apprentices, employers will automatically take more on. 4. This language has an old-fashioned ring, and was designed for a minor becoming an apprentice in a skilled trade. 5. They also sought to limit the number of apprentices entering their trades, because of the inevitable consequence of depressing wage rates; this has remained a feature of some craft unions to this day. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic