Both Uses of
apprentice
in
Oryx and Crake
- In exchange for the child apprentice, he would give the fathers, or else the widowed mothers, a good price, or what he said was a good price; and it was a decent-enough price, considering what people were used to.†
p. 118.9 *
- They'd have no apprentices, they'd have no successors.†
p. 223.6
Definition:
person who learns a trade or skill through hands-on experience under a skilled worker; or (as a verb) performance of that kind of work