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journeyman

[ jur-nee-muhn ]

noun

, plural jour·ney·men.
  1. a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
  2. any experienced, competent but routine worker or performer.
  3. a person hired to do work for another, usually for a day at a time.


journeyman

/ ˈdʒɜːnɪmən /

noun

  1. a craftsman, artisan, etc, who is qualified to work at his trade in the employment of another
  2. a competent workman
  3. (formerly) a worker hired on a daily wage


journeyman

  1. A skilled artisan who works on hire for master artisans rather than for himself.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of journeyman1

1425–75; late Middle English journeman, equivalent to journee a day's work ( journey ) + man man

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Word History and Origins

Origin of journeyman1

C15: from journey (in obsolete sense: a day's work) + man

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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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