journeyman

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J0067100 (jûr′nē-mən)n.1. One who has fully served an apprenticeship in a trade or craft and is a qualified worker in another's employ.2. An experienced and competent but undistinguished worker or athlete: "Most scientists are semiliterate journeymen with respect to the humanities" (Edward O. Wilson).

[Middle English journeiman : journei, a day's work; see journey + man, man; see man.]

journeyman

(ˈdʒɜːnɪmən) n, pl -men1. (Commerce) a craftsman, artisan, etc, who is qualified to work at his trade in the employment of another2. (Commerce) a competent workman3. (Commerce) (formerly) a worker hired on a daily wage[C15: from journey (in obsolete sense: a day's work) + man]

jour•ney•man

(ˈdʒɜr ni mən)

n., pl. -men. 1. a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade and is certified to work at it under another person. 2. a competent but routine worker or performer. 3. a person hired to do work for another, usu. by the day. [1425–75; journeman=journee a day's work (see journey) + man man]

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journeyman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraftartisan, artificer, craftsmanbeautician, cosmetician - someone who works in a beauty parlorbookbinder - a worker whose trade is binding booksbricklayer - a craftsman skilled in building with bricksclockmaker, clocksmith - someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watchescoachbuilder - a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehiclesconstruction worker, hard hat - a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc.barrel maker, cooper - a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubscoppersmith - someone who makes articles from coppercurrier - a craftsman who curries leather for usediemaker, diesinker, die-sinker - someone who makes diesglassblower - someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glassglassworker, glazer, glazier, glass cutter, glass-cutter - someone who cuts flat glass to sizegoldbeater, gold-beater - an artisan who beats gold into gold leafhairdresser, hairstylist, styler, stylist - someone who cuts or beautifies hairluthier - a craftsman who makes stringed instruments (as lutes or guitars or violins)machinist, mechanic, shop mechanic - a craftsman skilled in operating machine toolsstonemason, mason - a craftsman who works with stone or brickmiller - someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill)paperer, paperhanger - one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaperpipe fitter, plumber - a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliancesceramicist, ceramist, potter, thrower - a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kilnrigger - someone who rigs shipsroofer - a craftsman who lays or repairs roofsropemaker, rope-maker, roper - a craftsman who makes ropesskilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skillssteamfitter - a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigeratingtanner - a craftsman who tans skins and hidesanimal stuffer, stuffer, taxidermist - a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for displayupholsterer - a craftsman who upholsters furnitureweaver - a craftsman who weaves clothwelder - joins pieces of metal by welding them togetherwindow dresser, window trimmer - someone who decorates shop windowswoodworker, woodman, woodsman - makes things out of woodwright - someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)

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journeyman

1. a craftsman, artisan, etc., who is qualified to work at his trade in the employment of another 2. a competent workman 3. (formerly) a worker hired on a daily wage

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A craftsperson who has finished apprenticeship in a trade and qualifies for wages, but remains employed by others.

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in the medieval guild system, an artisan who did not have his own shop but worked for hire for a master, that is, a full member of a guild. At first, most journeymen became masters themselves after a few years of service. However, beginning in the 14th century, and especially in the 15th and 16th centuries, it became increasingly difficult for a journeyman to become a master, owing to growing stratification in the artisan milieu and the desire to limit admission of new members to the guilds. Barriers to admission included an upward revision of the property requirement for those seeking to become masters, as well as an increase in the dues that had to be paid to the guild treasury. Journeyman status gradually became permanent; journeymen were transformed in fact into wageworkers and were exploited more severely. All this resulted in an exacerbation of the struggle between masters and journeymen, the latter banding together in associations such as the compagnonnages in France.

journeyman

A person who has successfully served a formal apprenticeship in a building trade or craft and who is thereby qualified to work at that trade in another’s employ. A journeyman’s license (earned through a combination of education, supervised experience, and examination) is required in many locales for those employed at an intermediate level in certain trades, such as plumbing, mechanical work, and electrical work.

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noun a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

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