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A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
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journeyman
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"qualified worker at a craft or trade who works for wages for another" (a position between apprentice and master ), early 15c., from journey (n.), preserving the etymological sense of the word, + man (n.). Figurative depricatory sense of "hireling, drudge" ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A " journeyman " is a skilled worker who has successfully completed an official apprenticeship qualification in a building trade or craft . They are considered competent and authorized to work in that field as a fully qualified employee. A journeyman earns ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Following a tremendous start to this term, the one-time journeyman has pronounced his determination to go for the title. ▪ Francis Place, remembering his days as a journeyman tailor, endorsed this view. ▪ Most householders were ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman 2 a competent but undistinguished tradesman, especially one who works, and is paid by the day 3 (context sports English) a player who plays on many different teams during ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft [syn: craftsman , artisan , artificer ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Journeyman \Jour"ney*man\, n.; pl. Journeymen . 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 ...
Usage examples of journeyman.
So off he went with his Journeymen to seek new climes, new challenges, new regions to engage his interest.
He found enough journeymen at work while their masters rested to buy three crates of cullet glass to replace what he had destroyed.
Pyromancers, Journeyman and Master, joined by the Choinese Magician, sat in a triangle about the Lady Geomancer and began the difficult and demanding business of interweaving their powers.
Just then a group of journeyman horologes in bright red robes clacked down the gliddery in front of the warming pavilion.
At the Scholia on Leal, spells that warded the college fragmented in rainbow bursts of color, startling apprentices, journeymen, and Masters alike.
Rathe saw, that Mailet himself was working the front of the shop, flanked by sweating journeymen.
Then the journeymen on duty in the oubliette would hear tales of hunting dogs and remote heaths, and country games, unknown elsewhere, played beneath immemorial trees.
There were a handful of butchers, the journeyman Paas chief among them, who seemed to go out of their way to find something bad to say about anything Devynck did.
Only two of them lagged: Gedwin who was both old and weakened from his wounds, and Raeth Journeyman who could fare no quicker than a painful hobble.
She would work the riberry seed into her journeyman armbands, scatter the knots across her stitchery using brilliant, shimmering thread.
Besides--and here was the aspect that I found most attractive--if Runcible sicced his knights on the Journeyman who had slain my mother, my neck was not on the line.
Pateley and Chief Master-at-Arms Donal Brennan and a Journeyman Sorcerer named Torquin Scoll and a troop of fifty horsemen.
A tanner journeyman was bargaining with the welldressed marksman in the stall, his Smithcraft badge gleaming with a gold thread in the design.
Let mothers, wives and sisters stand forth and hurl their accusations against them and their staff officers, who planned mass murders in order to please an untalented little bourgeois, a hysterical journeyman painter.
Porthos, surprised at seeing the proud bishop of Vannes fraternizing with a journeyman tailor.