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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.
Word History and Origins
Origin of journeyman1
Word History and Origins
Origin of journeyman1
Example Sentences
For 67 summers, owners and all-stars and journeymen drifted by, and Scully stayed.
Those shortages have been affecting the competitive integrity of the games in myriad ways, from hollowing out rosters to forcing teams to be filled with journeymen.
My father hired a couple of journeyman carpenters to help with a building project.
The latter dictates when they advance from apprentice to journeyman, for which there is a significant difference in pay.
If being a journeyman professional distance runner was a rough way to make a living before, the pandemic has made it virtually impossible.
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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