-tə̇(sh)ˌship also -tə̇sˌsh- noun
( -s )
1. : service or status as an apprentice or novice
begin one's apprenticeship
his early intellectual apprenticeship — Paul Willen
2. : the time during which an apprentice or novice serves
the customary three years of apprenticeship — Current Biography
a writer with a long apprenticeship in reporting the inner and outer lives of the maladjusted — R.N.Denney