(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.
Trade
Definition:
(v.) A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
(v.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing.
(v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
(v.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.
(v.) Instruments of any occupation.
(v.) A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.
(v.) The trade winds.
(v.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
(v. i.) To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
(v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
(v. i.) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
(v. t.) To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
() imp. of Tread.
Example Sentences:
(1) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(2) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(3) Over the past 20 years the rag-and-bone trade has had a makeover.
(4) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
(5) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(6) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
(7) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(8) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(9) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(10) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(11) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
(12) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
(13) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(14) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(15) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
(16) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(17) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
(18) According to research by Tiga, the trade body representing the UK games industry, women make up just 12% of the development workforce in Britain – a percentage reflected by similar surveys in the US and Canada.
(19) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(20) All have territorial disputes with Beijing over the South China Sea , a route for about $4.5tn (£3.4tn) in trade that the US is concerned China wants to fully control.