# articled

Pronunciation: US say "AHR-ti-kuhld" /ˈɑɹtɪkəld/; UK say "AH-ti-kuhld" /ˈɑːtɪkl̩d/

## Adjective

1. Bound under the written articles of an apprenticeship, committed by formal contract to train under an employer for a fixed term.
   - Simple: Bound by a formal contract to learn a job from an employer for a set number of years.
   - _Articled clerks often worked for little pay while they qualified for the profession._
   - _An articled apprentice was legally bound to his employer for the full duration of the contract._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of article. — simple past and past participle of article
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of article. Use this form for something that already happened.
   - _The senior attorney articled three new clerks that spring._
   - _He was articled to a shipping company for a seven-year term._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/articled (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).