Sentence:  To be sure , in tool-and-die work and in the building trades , the first job must be often on an apprentice basis , but two years of halftime vocational training enables the <WSD>young</WSD> man thus to anticipate one year of apprentice status . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth