Apprentice vs. Tradesman — What's the Difference?

One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.

A tradesman is a skilled worker that specializes in a particular trade (occupation or field of work). Tradesmen usually have work experience, on-the-job training, and often formal vocational education in contrast to an apprentice, who is learning the trade.

One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labor union.

A man who practices a manual trade.

A beginner; a learner.

A man who is a merchant.

To work as an apprentice

A skilled manual worker (implied male).

To engage as an apprentice

(archaic) One who trades; a shopkeeper.

A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.

One who trades; a shopkeeper.

(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.

A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands.

(dated) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.

A merchant who owns or manages a shop

(transitive) To put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

(transitive) To be an apprentice to.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, 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.

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.

To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

Works for an expert to learn a trade

Be or work as an apprentice;

In training;