articling
- 1Present participle of article.
After law school, she began articling at a prominent litigation firm.
He is articling under a barrister who specializes in maritime cases.
Note
Apprenticeship is the thread here: the verb behind this form means to bind someone by articles of apprenticeship, and in law that becomes the supervised training a graduate completes before admission to the bar. The verb itself is transitive (a firm articles a student), but the -ing form can drop the object and turn to the trainee: she is articling at a firm. As a gerund it names the training period itself, and it has nothing to do with writing articles.
articling is a form of article
article, verb: To state something in separate, distinct points or particulars. Full entry
- Spelling
- article → articling: drop the e, add -ing
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