pupilage

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English

Etymology

From pupil +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

Noun

pupilage (countable and uncountable, plural pupilages)

  1. The condition of being a pupil.
    • 1944 September and October, “The Late R. M. Deeley”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
      In 1875, however, he left the firm and as he was still under 21, it was arranged that he should serve an additional pupilage, this time with the Midland Railway under S. W. Johnson, who had migrated to Derby from the Great Eastern two years before.
  2. The period during which one is a pupil.
    • 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 282:
      A pupilage was normally two years, after three or four years as a premium apprentice.

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