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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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" is from 1540s. Its American English colloquial shortening jour (adj.) is attested from 1835.
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 the course of his career
WordNet
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 their license through education, supervised experience, and examination. Although a journeyman has completed a trade certificate and is able to work as an employee, they are not yet able to work as a self-employed master craftsman. The term journeyman was originally used in the medieval trade guilds. Journeymen were paid each day, and this is where the word ‘journey’ derived from- journée meaning ‘a day’ in French. Each individual guild generally recognized three ranks of workers; apprentices, journeymen, and masters. A journeyman, as a qualified tradesman could become a master, running their own business although most continued working as employees.
Guidelines were put in place to promote responsible tradesmen who were held accountable for their own work, and to protect the individual trade and the general public from unskilled workers. To become a master, a journeyman has to submit a master piece of work to a guild for an evaluation. Only after evaluation can a journeyman be admitted to the guild as a master. Sometimes, a journeyman is required to accomplish a three-year working trip, which may be called the journeyman years.
Journeyman is the eleventh studio album by blues/ rock musician Eric Clapton, released in 1989.
The album was heralded as a return to form for Clapton, who had struggled with alcohol addiction in the mid-1980s and had recently found sobriety. Much of it has an electronic sound, mostly influenced by the 1980s rock scene, but it also includes blues songs like " Before You Accuse Me," "Running on Faith," and "Hard Times." The strongest single commercially from this album was " Bad Love," which earned him Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at the 1990 Grammy Awards, and reached the No. 1 position on the Album Rock Chart. " Pretending" had also reached the No. 1 position on the Album Rock Chart the previous year, remaining at the top for five weeks ("Bad Love" had only stayed for three weeks).
While the album was only a moderate commercial success at the time, reaching number 16 on the Billboard 200 chart, it went on to become his first solo studio album to go double platinum. This is one of Eric Clapton's favourite albums.
Journeyman may refer to:
- Journeyman, a tradesman or craftsman who has completed an apprenticeship, but is not yet a Master tradesman
In American English, a journeyman or journeywoman is an athlete who is technically competent but unable to excel. The term is used elsewhere (such as in British and Australian contexts) to refer to a professional sportsman who plays for a large number of different clubs during his career.
Journeyman is a 2007 American science fiction romance television series created by Kevin Falls for 20th Century Fox Television which aired on the NBC television network. It starred Kevin McKidd as Dan Vasser, a San Francisco reporter who involuntarily travels through time. Alex Graves, who directed the pilot, and Falls served as executive producers.
The show premiered on September 24, 2007, airing Mondays at 10 p.m. Eastern Time. The initial order from the network was for 13 episodes, all of which were produced prior to the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike by screenwriters. However, the series suffered from low ratings, and NBC canceled it in April 2008. The final episode of Journeyman aired on Wednesday, December 19, 2007.
In boxing and mixed martial arts, a journeyman is a fighter who has adequate skill but is not of the caliber of a contender or gatekeeper. Outside of combat sports, a "journeyman" is a trader or crafter who has completed an apprenticeship, but is not at the level of a master craftsman. Hence, when applied to them, a "journeyman" implies a fighter who is no longer a novice, and has the sufficient degree of boxing skill that may be expected from a professional, but who does not have the mastery possessed by the contenders.
Journeymen will often serve as opponents for young up and coming prospects and will often step in at late notice should a fight fall through. Journeymen are said to have little or no expectation of winning fights against contenders or gatekeepers, but this does not preclude them from having a winning record against less-skilled fighters.
In testimony to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, DeGuardia states that becoming a journeyman is the fate of many professional boxers, and that a boxer will realize that he has become a journeyman "after about 10 years" in the profession. Journeymen boxers float "from promoter to promoter, or manager to manager, hoping to get placed as opponents in fights" by promoters, and making very little money. They will "fight all the time, anywhere, in order to make enough money to get by". In earlier testimony to the committee, it had been reported that some journeymen boxers regard themselves as existing in the sport solely as "a body for better men to beat on".
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.