apprenticing

verb

present participle of apprentice
as in jobbing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apprenticing
  1. employing
  2. subcontracting
  3. hiring
  4. recruiting
  5. contracting
  6. paying
  7. retaining
  8. assuming
Verb
  • Distribution among company size was relatively balanced, with firms employing fewer than 50 people leading with 23,000 new jobs.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Many skeptics see a contradiction in high-achieving, mostly white young voters employing rhetoric about labor and solidarity.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of employing
Verb
  • Unite Here Local 17, the union that represents the 500 Target Field concessions workers, says Delaware North failed to bargain in good faith by subcontracting Minnesota Funding Initiative volunteers.
    — Aki Nace, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Content industries in the country are plagued by low wages, punishing hours, and subcontracting arrangements that push risk onto the most vulnerable workers.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 7 May 2026
Definition of subcontracting
Verb
  • Producers Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold, and Tom Kirdahy announced Davis’ hiring Tuesday.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Pre-production is a long process that includes casting, hiring the crew, scheduling, rehearsals, and so much more — a lot can happen during the weeks and months leading up to filming.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of hiring
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  • The significant time and effort involved makes most sense when recruiting, hiring, training, and mentoring large numbers for identical (or at least similar) jobs.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Jones was instrumental in recruiting Venturini Fendi’s daughter, jewelry designer Delfina Delettrez Fendi, as Fendi’s artistic director of jewelry.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of recruiting
Verb
  • McConnell has not been seen or heard in public since he was hospitalized in mid-June after suffering the fall at his home in Washington and then contracting pneumonia.
    — Kevin Breuninger,Garrett Downs, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
  • This summer’s cyclospora outbreak has triggered worries about contracting a nasty foodborne gastrointestinal illness caused by the microscopic parasite.
    — Gina Vivinetto, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of contracting
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  • Without his salary, paying rent, buying food, phone credit, covering transport costs and paying water bills have all become daily struggles.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The proposal stated that military or civilian cargo linked to Israeli vessels and other entities deemed to have damaged Iran would be banned from crossing until paying compensation.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of paying
Verb
  • Both aircraft use Jaunt’s Slowed-Rotor Compound configuration, which shifts more lift to the wing during forward flight to improve cruise efficiency while retaining vertical takeoff and landing capability.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Alabama, meanwhile, remains a persistent outlier, retaining the highest relative fatality burden even when normalized against population size, indicating that exposure alone does not fully account for its placement in the distribution.
    — Matthew MacConnell, ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of retaining
Verb
  • Founders often focus heavily on maximizing valuation, assuming that securing the highest purchase price is the primary objective.
    — Amit Jain, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Bloomberg claimed today that OpenAI will reveal its speaker this year and release it in 2027, assuming Apple’s lawsuit doesn’t disrupt those plans.
    — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of assuming
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