Definition of "wanderjahr" [wanderjahr]

• A year-long period of travel; especially succeeding one’s education and prior unto seeking employment (noun)
• A year spent by an apprentice travelling and honing his skills prior unto the professional practice of his trade (noun)

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• "In a kind of wanderjahr prolonged for decades, young people will try out jobs on a temporary basis, float in and out of their parents 'homes, hit the Europass-and-hostel circuit, pick up extra courses and degrees, and live with different people in different places."
• "Her owner of record, a House Director's whelp on wanderjahr, had become bored with his pretty toy and had discarded her, without documentation, her only assets those designed into her fragile body."
• "After the University and after my _wanderjahr_, I thought it would be another easy task to come here, and 'learn the business.'"