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An A for apprenticeship (8)

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I believe the answer is:

articles

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'apprenticeship' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Legal apprenticeship ' mean 'articles' so perhaps 'apprenticeship' could also mean 'articles')

'an a for' is the wordplay.
'an' becomes 'article' ('an' is an indefinite article in English).
'a for' becomes 's' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'article'+'s'='ARTICLES'

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(Other definitions for articles that I've seen before include "Recitals (anag.)" , "Recitals about particular things" , "Legal apprenticeship" , "Things, objects" , "Items" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail and The Telegraph.
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