Apprentice vs Practitioner - What's the difference?
apprentice | practitioner |
A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.
(historical) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a tradesperson, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
(dated) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.
To put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
To be an apprentice to.
A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
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, title= One who does anything customarily or habitually.
(label) A sly or artful person.
* John Whitgift
As nouns the difference between apprentice and practitioner
is that apprentice is a trainee, especially in a skilled trade while practitioner is a person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.As a verb apprentice
is to put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.apprentice
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Alternative forms
* apprentise (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)See also
* * *Verb
(apprentic)- Joe apprenticed three different photographers before setting up his own studio.
References
* *practitioner
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(wikipedia practitioner)Noun
(en noun)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners , in shaking off their Masters and Heads.