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journeyman
[ jur-nee-muhn ]
noun
- a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
- any experienced, competent but routine worker or performer.
- a person hired to do work for another, usually for a day at a time.
journeyman
/ ˈdʒɜːnɪmən /
noun
- a craftsman, artisan, etc, who is qualified to work at his trade in the employment of another
- a competent workman
- (formerly) a worker hired on a daily wage
journeyman
- A skilled artisan who works on hire for master artisans rather than for himself.
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Origin of journeyman1
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Example Sentences
He'll be played by Grahame Fox, a journeyman Welsh actor who's appeared on the U.K. soap EastEnders and the TV series Casualty.
To play the character, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss cast Pedro Pascal, a journeyman Chilean-American actor.
Journeyman players whose only skill is total disregard for their bodies become legends, albeit short-term ones.
And journeyman Swedish golfer Johan Edfors, who attended the University of Texas San Antonio, is really no match here.
“I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities,” Bourdain admits.
You learn that this journeyman artist once was a well-known painter of the Quarter, who had drawn for years in the academies.
The proportion of journeymen to apprentices was regulated: there were to be three apprentices to one journeyman.
The letter from his son, who had finished his apprenticeship as journeyman joiner half a year ago, was sufficiently frivolous.
Orion, by this time seventeen and a very good journeyman printer, obtained a place in St. Louis to aid in the family support.
He had never employed a journeyman, and would never take more than two apprentices at a time.
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