(n.) The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.
(n.) The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
Example Sentences:
(1) The apprenticeship system for young people aged 15 and over who do not go to university is one example.
(2) For too long apprenticeships have been seen as the poor relation to higher education Time and again over the course of the last six years, austerity has hit hardest those living in the most-deprived areas.
(3) If we fail, then the whole apprenticeship opportunity will be lost once more.
(4) It is working in partnership with Skills for Health Academy North West, City of Liverpool College and local NHS trusts to deliver the first health informatics cadet apprenticeship course.
(5) The company has created an apprenticeship programme for surveyors as an alternative to university, although it also increased graduate recruits last year.
(6) He left school at 16 to serve an apprenticeship at the Savile Row tailors Anderson and Shephard, eventually making suits for Prince Charles.
(7) Millions of families are proud that their young people are now earning and learning through apprenticeships and other policies like creating jobs through the regional growth fund and supporting our innovative city deals.
(8) Brauksiepe says a key reason is Germany's dual apprenticeship programme, on which – according to the labour ministry – up to 60% of young people enrol.
(9) The rising confidence of our members paints the picture of a resilient industry on the up, despite economic headwinds in challenging overseas markets ... We want to see this continue in 2015 and for the government to get behind us even more with increased support for exporters and for apprenticeships.
(10) The apprenticeship levy is absolutely crucial to this,” he said.
(11) The report last month from the Young Women’s Trust found that although more women were now entering apprenticeships than men, they were paid less than their male counterparts and were less likely to go on to gain employment.
(12) The author describes the experiences, the series of "apprenticeships" and clinical exposures, which coalesced into his education, from teenage days in the New York Madison House settlement, through Harvard undergraduate and graduate work, to Worcester State Hospital as head of psychological services and research.
(13) The change would also simplify payrolls and encourage employers to offer apprenticeships.
(14) The government’s approach to this requires a lot more sophistication than we’ve seen so far.” Small businesses had more to cheer in the autumn statement, with many given exemption from the apprenticeship levy, and the chancellor pressing on with small business rate relief for 600,000 firms.
(15) In government, the coalition has announced 50,000 extra apprenticeship places.
(16) The government has pitched it to business as a way to end years of under-investment in training and solve skills shortages with 3m new apprenticeships by 2020.
(17) But Cameron veered from Libya to adoption, from apprenticeships to gay marriage, and on the economy, from optimism to pessimism.
(18) According to the documents, UK-based businesses would benefit from more than 60% of the cost of the project and 26,000 jobs and apprenticeships would be created during construction and after its opening.
(19) The patient is a 28-year-old hairdresser who began his apprenticeship after school and has worked in this profession since then.
(20) Apprenticeships need to be rigorous programmes of learning planned collaboratively by employers and education professionals with clear and explicit progression routes into employment.
Cowan
Definition:
(n.) One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three wk after in vivo immunization with PRP and TT, in vitro stimulation with pokeweed mitogen, Staphylococcus aureus Cowan 1 bacteria, or antigen induced anti-TT but not anti-PRP in vitro antibody secretion, although Epstein-Barr virus induced both.
(2) However, the responses of adenoidal and tonsillar lymphocytes to Staphylococcus aureus Cowan strain A were not potentiated by retinoids.
(3) Human monocytes show a dose-dependent decrease of the MHC-class II antigen expression (HLA-DR and HLA-DQ) after addition of zymosan or Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I particles.
(4) In the present study, we have analyzed the effect of several recombinant cytokines (rIL2, rIFN-alpha, rIFN-gamma) on the terminal differentiation of B cells from 10 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) stimulated with three different B cell activators (phorbolester TPA, staphylococcus aureus Cowan I bacteria, or pokeweed mitogen).
(5) IL-2, at high concentrations induced higher levels of Ig secretion in Staphylococcus aureus strain Cowan I (SAC)-activated B cells than at low concentrations.
(6) Stimulation of monocytes by the potent activation inducer Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (SAC) for 3-5 h caused the disappearance of p53 mRNA.
(7) Mononuclear cells, freshly derived from peripheral blood or following stimulation in vitro with pokeweed mitogen or Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I, are partially depleted of T cells and monocytes using immunomagnetic beads (Dynabeads) coated with anti-CD2.
(8) The Cowan I strain of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus has been used as an adsorbent for antibodies complexed with radiolabeled antigens from cell lysates.
(9) The proliferation of human peripheral blood lymphocytes induced by concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin-P, pokeweed mitogen, protein A or Cowan I was not suppressed by WP-833.
(10) Inasmuch as B cell function is in large part determined by lymphokine-derived accessory signals, we studied the effects of recombinant IL-2 and low-molecular-weight B cell growth factor (BCGF) on peripheral blood B cells activated with Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I to explain the B cell hyperfunction in patients with SLE.
(11) Extracorporeal immunoadsorption with protein A (SpA) containing Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (SAC) has previously been shown to induce an antitumor and antiviral response in some feline leukemia virus (FeLV)-infected, lymphosarcoma (LSA) cats.
(12) Pretreatment of HeLa cells with the mixture of staphylococcal extracellular antigens and antibodies to them also enhanced the adhesion of Cowan I.
(13) This effect was more marked when the animals were also given injections of Staphylococcus aureus Cowan A.
(14) We have described a clinically feasible method capable of rapidly and repeatedly removing mammalian IgG extracorporeally by adsorption onto heat-killed, formalin-stabilized Staphylococcus aureus Cowan-I.
(15) Significantly increased binding of Cowan I bacteria was detected at antiinfluenzal serum dilutions as high as 1:40,960.
(16) The method is based on the sensitization of formalin-treated Cowan-1 S. aureus cells with immunoglobulins to TSE.
(17) The patient B cells showed a significantly lower proliferative response to Staphylococcus aureus Cowan strain I (SAC) than control B cells and did not produce a significant amount of IgM when co-cultured with control T cells.
(18) Cholera toxin enhanced thymidine incorporation of anti-mu antibody-preactivated but not of Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I or PMA + ionomycin-preactivated B cells.
(19) NGF augmented the mitogenic effect of the T-independent B cell mitogen, Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I strain, and provided a progression signal to competent B cells.
(20) However, cytoplasmic phosphoinositides in the B cells from all four patients with CVI were already increased above what is observed in normal B cells before stimulation with HMW BCGF (either freshly isolated or Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I-activated B cell).