2historical A trained worker who is employed by someone else.
as modifier‘a journeyman carpenter’
‘journeymen printers’
‘As commerce expanded and as trade conditions allowed, the masters trained apprentices and hired journeymen, always within the rules of the guilds they had created.’
‘Once certified, master trainers are authorized to train appropriate journeymen to become certified craft instructors.’
‘It is known that Major Samuel Lawrence, for example, at times employed apprentice and journeymen shoemakers, so diversifying from purely agricultural production.’
‘Those who wished it could get a journeyman to train them in the arts of weaponry; otherwise, they were taught how to fight by their Masters.’
‘There was a time when proper vocational and journeyman training and workmanship standards were easily identified and understood.’
‘He also worked as a journeyman carpenter on many major construction projects in western and northern Canada.’
‘Now some masters became much wealthier than others, employing larger numbers of journeymen.’
‘Moreover, the painter or sculptor of the unknown work was clearly alive in 1520 and employed a journeyman.’
‘When asked how I would support myself in the US I told the Consulate staffer I was a journeyman carpenter.’
‘She looks at apprentices, journeymen carpenters, and entrepreneurs who erected, finished, and sold houses in dynamic and changing markets.’
‘He joined a vocational training center for a nine-month course in carpentry skills and thereafter got employment as a journeyman with a local factory.’
‘On that day a twenty-three-year-old journeyman printer named Benjamin Day offered New Yorkers a paper called the Sun.’
‘Perhaps it was made by a journeyman printer, who sold it on the market to earn a shilling?’
‘Moreover, many masters were reluctant to clamp down because in fact they themselves sometimes employed ‘rented’ labor alongside their journeymen and apprentices.’
‘But Daley couldn't sustain his efforts, and never developed a permanent, salary-earning career as a journeyman writer.’
‘A young journeyman noticed Joe's dress change and nudged the apprentice next to him.’
‘They are the kind of journeymen he was used to working with at Coventry.’
‘‘These were my first steps in that field and I was working as a journeyman to gain enough experience and go ahead,’ he says.’
‘The summer after my sophomore year in college, and I decided, through no apparent logic, to try my hand as a journeyman roofer.’
‘At the end of their apprenticeships trainees became journeymen, fully skilled tradesmen.’
employee, member of staff, working man, working woman, workman, labourer, hand, operative, operator
Origin
Late Middle English from journey (in the obsolete sense ‘day's work’) + man; so named because the journeyman was no longer bound by indentures but was paid by the day.
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