apprentice
noun
[ əˈprɛntɪs ]
• a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.
• "an apprentice electrician"
Similar:
trainee,
learner,
probationer,
tyro,
novice,
mentee,
neophyte,
raw recruit,
fledgling,
new boy/girl,
novitiate,
pupil,
student,
beginner,
starter,
rookie,
greenhorn,
tenderfoot,
apprentice
verb
• employ (someone) as an apprentice.
• "Edward was apprenticed to a printer"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French aprentis (from apprendre ‘learn’, from Latin apprehendere ‘apprehend’), on the pattern of words ending in -tis, -tif, from Latin -tivus (see -ive).
