apprentices 1 of 2

noun

plural of apprentice
1
as in assistants
a person who helps a more skilled person decided to be an apprentice to an electrician after he graduated

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as in novices
a person who is just starting out in a field of activity aware that she's only an apprentice in the medical field, she readily defers to her more experienced colleagues

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apprentices

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verb

present tense third-person singular of apprentice
as in jobs

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Recent Examples of apprentices
Noun
For one year as well, apprentices stay protected, working with a senior employee to avoid burning out. — Megan Shinn, CBS News, 18 May 2026 Reducing the quantity of new trade workers forced to work as apprentices is the simplest answer to the ratio problem. — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 For electricians, for example, apprentices must complete four years of training to move on to the licensing exam. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2026 Unionized workers are employed on a huge number of massive data center projects and scrambling to recruit new apprentices to feed the explosive demand. — Marc Levy, Fortune, 2 May 2026 Guests will hear the shuffle of San Francisco outside the windows, phones ringing, and the lingering voices of apprentices or other clients. — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 26 June 2026 Arthur Bryant’s and Gates Bar-B-Q, whose origins can be traced back to Henry Perry through his apprentices decades ago. — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 4 May 2026 The location is intended to help students, technicians, apprentices, and engineers move directly into careers linked to quantum technologies. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 June 2026 Regular midwives were primarily women, trained as apprentices but not institutionally educated. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apprentices
  1. assistants
  2. novices
  3. recruits
  4. aides
  5. beginners
  6. hires
  7. deputies
  8. newcomers
Noun
  • Others newly added to the professional list include degrees for physical therapy, athletic training, speech-language pathology, physician associates and anesthesiologist assistants.
    — Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Calderón, a big, bald man wearing a gold chain and cross-shaped earrings, sat off to the side, amid an entourage of muscular assistants in polo shirts, poking at his phone.
    — Will Freeman, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
Definition of assistants
Noun
  • The free Apple Photos is approachable for photography novices but still powerful enough to satisfy those who want extra control.
    — Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 29 June 2026
  • To create something wholly new, the narrative team looked back to other games with a low barrier to entry, particularly early 2000s Nintendo consoles that invited novices to join the fold.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
Definition of novices
Verb
  • Interim work is often temporary cover while a company recruits a permanent hire.
    — Sue Mysko, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Van Der Werf recruits unemployed or underemployed Europeans as young as 18-years-old, into a five-week boot camp run by military veterans to teach teamwork, strength, and discipline.
    — Richard Morgan, Time, 29 June 2026
Definition of recruits
Noun
  • The aides allegedly worked for the party instead of doing parliamentary tasks.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
  • Some aides were pushing him to run for president in 2016 instead.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 3 July 2026
Definition of aides
Noun
  • On the rocks below, instructors help complete beginners fasten their harnesses, chalk their hands and search for the next hold on the granite wall.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2026
  • Who a Rucking Vest Is For Buyers range from beginners walking the neighborhood to elite athletes chasing competition standards.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of beginners
Verb
  • Christoph Waltz voices Max, the film director who hires the Minions to act in his films during the 1920s.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 July 2026
  • Exposing city taxpayers to potential liability when CVI hires return to their past ways, which is known to happen, is extraordinarily misguided.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
Definition of hires
Noun
  • The woman had been missing since May 25, when deputies took a report of a missing person in the 900 block of Locust Road.
    — Seamus Bozeman Follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • Restaurant staff told deputies that Tinucci had been driving the SUV earlier that day.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 6 July 2026
Definition of deputies
Noun
  • In a city whose most iconic statue is a testament to its openness to newcomers, teams from Cape Verde to Paraguay to Congo found local fans and international visitors found compatriots.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • Many rural areas in the Midwest had a similar share of immigrants in 1910, but newcomers to the cities tended to be from novel sources like Russia or Italy.
    — Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of newcomers

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