be apprenticed to
idiom
: to begin serving as an apprentice to
He was apprenticed to a carpenter at the age of 15.
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In Renaissance times, they couldn’t be apprenticed to a master.
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John Hooper, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
John Hooper, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
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“Be apprenticed to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/be%20apprenticed%20to. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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