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noun

Journeyman 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 from apprentice and from master workman. "I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well."

Hence: A competent and experienced worker who performs adequately but without a high level of expertise or imagination.

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Etymology of 'Journeyman'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Journeyman" Quotes from Famous Books

... when they enter the Colony, but many of them learn rapidly. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that boys from eighteen to twenty years of age can spend two years in the sloyd shop and leave it fully qualified as cabinet-makers, and capable of earning a journeyman's wages. ...

— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

... of mutton, to change your FREE THOUGHTS and VOLUNTARY NUMBERS for ungracious TASK-WORK. Those fellows hate us. The reason I take to be, that contrary to other trades, in which the master gets all the credit (a jeweller or silversmith for instance,) and the journeyman, who really does the fine work, is in the background: in our work the world gives all the credit to us, whom they consider as their journeymen, and therefore do they hate us, and cheat us, and oppress us, and would ...

— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various

... workman became a skilled artisan he was called a journeyman,[3] that is, a man who earned a full day's pay for his work. The legal hours of work were, from March to September, from 5 a.m. to 7.30 p.m., with half an hour for breakfast, and an hour and a half for dinner. Saturday was universally a half-holiday. There were 44 working weeks in a ...

— Life in a Medival City - Illustrated by York in the XVth Century • Edwin Benson

... Isaiah Thomas, was a man of considerable talent and of great wit and humor. He was born in England, and was brought up in a printing office in the city of Bristol, where he afterwards worked as a journeyman. Although he was considered a man of sense, he was never thought to be overburdened with religious sentiments; he certainly was not in his latter days. Yet he was more than suspected of being actively engaged in the riotous proceedings connected with the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, ...

— The Only True Mother Goose Melodies - Without Addition or Abridgement • Munroe and Francis

... do not dare to be in love because I would not see a wife and children starve. I regard my position as one of enforced monasticism, and myself as a monk under the cruellest compulsion. I often wish that I had been brought up as a journeyman hatter." ...

— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope

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