journeyman
journeyman
Definition
jour·ney·man (-mən)
noun pl. -·men-mən
- Obsolete a worker for a daily wage
- a worker who has served an apprenticeship and is therefore qualified to work at a specified trade
- any sound, experienced, but not brilliant craftsman or performer
Etymology: ME < journee (see journey), in sense “day's work” + man
journeyman
Synonyms
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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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