apprenticeshipn.1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.()2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).()a.[p. p. appress, which is not in use. See Adpress.] (Bot.) Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem.(Gray.)