The Collaborative International Dictionary
Journeyman \Jour"ney*man\, n.; pl. Journeymen.
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Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has finished an apprenticeship and is a competent worker in a handicraft or trade, but has not received recognition as a master; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman.
I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well.
--Shak. Hence: A competent and experienced worker who performs adequately but without a high level of expertise or imagination.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of journeyman English)
Usage examples of "journeymen".
Ordinarily he would have passed them on to his journeymen as they grasped the complexities of their craft.
To the other new journeymen waiting in the courtyard for their conveyancing, he said, "Your dragons will be along shortly - and congratulations.
When he had had to dispatch journeymen and apprentice healers to reinforce their overworked craftsmen in the worst plague areas, Tirone had magnanimously placed his craftspeople at Fortine's disposal.
I can't even get a decent account from the drummaster though I quite appreciate that neither he nor his journeymen had the time to log the messages which came in and out of the tower at such a rate.
We've lost irreplaceable Masters and promising journeymen in every Craft.
One of my journeymen is a wizard at figuring out what he calls time-and-motion processes.
Amid the journeymen, small holders, apprentices, folk from all the Weyrs, Capiam saw few wearing a Telgar badge, but many displaying Keroon.
The courtyard of the Hall was filled with anxious apprentices and journeymen, harper and healer.
As she turned away, he managed an affectionate slap on her backside as he resumed his task of assigning newly promoted journeymen to the many holds and halls which required such services.
With a hard winter, it was impossible to ask journeymen to tour from one hold to another, spreading their services by spending four seven-days in one place and then moving on.
She chose only the attractive journeymen and Masters, of whom there were quite a few just then: back at the Hall either for reassignment or to take part in the TurnOver rehearsals.
Two of the journeymen with him were leading runner-beasts, one of which was very definitely lame.
His glance caught the map with its little coloured pegs signifying the position of journeymen and Masters across the continent.
But there was nothing especially unusual about Shonagar's presence: journeymen were constantly in and out of the Hall on errands, on reassignments, or to ask advice of their Masters.
The two journeymen shared a small inner apartment on the Holder's floor with two bed cubicles and a decent-sized day room, and shared the bathing facilities down the hall with the three apprentices who were quartered in one big inner room.