Time served is also a term used to indicate a craftsman has spent the required period as an apprentice.
Famous quotes containing the words time and/or served:
“[I]f our reader should be neither informed nor amused, we shall be very sorry for his loss of time as well as our own.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
“All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)