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. 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 5 Nov. 2024.

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