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prentice

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for prentice.

Editorial note

While Prentice claimed he needed a new mandate for his budget, the true reason for this election's timing was obvious.

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Quick take

A surname originating as an occupation.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A surname originating as an occupation.

noun

A town and village therein, in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for prentice.

noun

A town and village therein, in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.

Example sentences

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While Prentice claimed he needed a new mandate for his budget, the true reason for this election's timing was obvious.

2

- Editor of Prentice Hall business books, 1957 There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

3

Not being GPL'd meant that a whole generation of hackers followed Linus Torvalds rather than buying a bunch of books from Prentice Hall.

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I'm no Harper fan, but he hasn't been anywhere as arrogant as Prentice had become in the last few weeks.

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I was one of those who bought books, took weekly reverent hauls at the bookstore, from Prentice Hall, until about twenty plus years ago.

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Hull, Prentice Hall Int’l Financial Calculus, M.

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Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

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> Not being GPL'd meant that a whole generation of hackers followed Linus Torvalds rather than buying a bunch of books from Prentice Hall.

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- Editor of Prentice Hall business books, 1957 - There's no chance [that I am going to admit to my share holders] that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

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The diskette was missing when I bought it, and I am sure I tried to download the source code from the Addison-Wesley ftp site (it could have been a Prentice Hall book as well) Cheers!

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The most high-profile speculation to date came in a March 6, 2014, article in the magazine Newsweek,[30] when journalist Leah McGrath Goodman identified Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese American man living in California, whose birth name is Satoshi Nakamoto.

Quote examples

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I have been (and still am) an advisor to Pearson, which now includes Addison-Wesley and Prentice-Hall, ran a book series on "Innovative Technology", solicited authors, and helped get important books published.

Proper noun examples

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Prentice and the Alberta PC's made a litany of key mistakes in rapid succession.

2

Prentice hall had been publishing his books since the 1970's.

3

My 401K company, Kibble & Prentice, does the same thing.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use prentice in a sentence?

While Prentice claimed he needed a new mandate for his budget, the true reason for this election's timing was obvious.

What does prentice mean?

A surname originating as an occupation.

What part of speech is prentice?

prentice is commonly used as noun.