Journeyman definitions

jûr'nē-mən
The definition of a journeyman is a trained or skilled worker who is qualified to be employed by someone else in a specific trade.

A trained electrician who is beyond the stage of apprentice is an example of a journeyman.

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One who has fully served an apprenticeship in a trade or craft and is a qualified worker in another's employ.
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An experienced and competent but undistinguished worker.
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Any sound, experienced, but not brilliant craftsman or performer.
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A worker for a daily wage.
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A worker who has served an apprenticeship and is therefore qualified to work at a specified trade.
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A tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman.
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A competent but undistinguished tradesman, especially one who works, and is paid by the day.
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Origin of journeyman

Middle English journeiman journei a day's work journey man man man

Sentence Examples

  • He learned how to set type, and as a journeyman printer he wandered widely, going even as far east as New York.

  • The apprenticeship model is one that provides training for people looking to qualify for journeyman status in various trades.

  • From the Journeyman album, this song captures that classic sadness heard in so many of Clapton's songs.

  • They really looked exactly what they are - a motley bunch of journeyman footballers only suited to lower league football.

  • As in every social scheme where the government is wor without real power, the weakest sought protection of the strongest; and the system of patron, client and journeyman, which had existed among the Romans, the Gauls and the Germans, spread rapidly in the 6th and 7th centuries, owing to public disorder and the inadequate protection afforded by the government.

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