The act or process of apprenticing someone; binding someone as an apprentice (archaic term).
From apprentice + -ment suffix (action or result of an action). The -ment suffix creates nouns from verbs, as in amazement, agreement. This is an obsolete form replaced by 'apprenticeship.'
The fact that English had both 'apprenticement' and 'apprenticeship' shows how redundant suffixes sometimes compete—-ment lost this battle, but it still wins in words like amazement!
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