All 12 Uses of
apprentice
in
Great Expectations
- When I was old enough, I was to be apprenticed to Joe, and until I could assume that dignity I was not to be what Mrs. Joe called "Pompeyed," or (as I render it) pampered.†
Chpt 7
- Mr. Pumblechook was in favor of a handsome premium for binding me apprentice to some genteel trade,—say, the corn and seed trade, for instance.†
Chpt 9 *
- I told her I was going to be apprenticed to Joe, I believed; and I enlarged upon my knowing nothing and wanting to know everything, in the hope that she might offer some help towards that desirable end.†
Chpt 12
- I was fully old enough now to be apprenticed to Joe; and when Joe sat with the poker on his knees thoughtfully raking out the ashes between the lower bars, my sister would so distinctly construe that innocent action into opposition on his part, that she would dive at him, take the poker out of his hands, shake him, and put it away.†
Chpt 12
- Meaning the master you were to be apprenticed to?†
Chpt 12
- You had better be apprenticed at once.†
Chpt 12
- And you have reared the boy, with the intention of taking him for your apprentice; is that so, Mr. Gargery?†
Chpt 13
- The Justices were sitting in the Town Hall near at hand, and we at once went over to have me bound apprentice to Joe in the Magisterial presence.†
Chpt 13
- "You have an apprentice," pursued the stranger, "commonly known as Pip?†
Chpt 18
- Now, Joseph Gargery, I am the bearer of an offer to relieve you of this young fellow your apprentice.†
Chpt 18
- Then he asked me tenderly if I remembered our boyish games at sums, and how we had gone together to have me bound apprentice, and, in effect, how he had ever been my favorite fancy and my chosen friend?†
Chpt 19
- "I was liberally paid for my old attendance here," I said, to soothe her, "in being apprenticed, and I have asked these questions only for my own information.†
Chpt 44
Definition:
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(apprentice) one who works for an expert to learn a trade; or (as a verb) performance of that kind of work