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journeyman Definition

jour·ney·man (-mən)

noun pl. -·men-mən

    1. Obsolete a worker for a daily wage
    2. a worker who has served an apprenticeship and is therefore qualified to work at a specified trade
  1. any sound, experienced, but not brilliant craftsman or performer

Etymology: ME < journee (see journey), in sense “day's work” + man

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journeyman

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journeyman Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: Once an apprenticeship was over, the young person now became a journeyman.
  • employ: For example, we tried to distinguish masters, those employing others, from employed journeyman.
  • include: The heads of these families included various journeymen and craftsmen, as well as lawyer and tutor.

Adjective modifier

  • competent: Slightly more than a competent journeyman I would say.
  • more: More journeymen ( OK grant you that one ).
  • distressed: Masters paying more or less wages than that decreed were liable to a penalty of £ 50 which would be distributed among distressed journeymen.
  • good: He was swift and clean as a good journeyman.

Modifies a noun

  • miller: Some millers worked on their own and others employed a son or a journeyman miller to assist them.
  • weaver: The wages were never high enough to enable the journeyman weaver to tide over periods of unemployment.
  • baker: Also living in the house are five journeyman bakers ( ranging in age from 15 to 24 ) and a female general servant.
  • tailor: In 1881 a journeyman tailor called Roger Simmons lived over No. 70 with his wife, three children, and niece.
  • printer: When Ingram finished his training he moved to London where he worked as a journeyman printer.
  • shoemaker: There the chair was taken by David Morgan, a journeyman shoemaker.

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