24 May 2017
journeyman
[jur-nee-muh n]
noun, plural journeymen.
1. a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
2. any experienced, competent but routine worker or performer.
3. a person hired to do work for another, usually for a day at a time.
Origin of journeyman
late Middle English
1425-1475 late Middle English journeman, equivalent to journee a day’s work (see journey ) + man man1
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Examples from the Web for journeyman
Contemporary Examples
And journeyman Swedish golfer Johan Edfors, who attended the University of Texas San Antonio, is really no match here.
March Madness: Which Celebrity Alumni Will Win?
Michael Solomon
March 16, 2011
He’ll be played by Grahame Fox, a journeyman Welsh actor who’s appeared on the U.K. soap EastEnders and the TV series Casualty.
Meet Game of Thrones’ Sexy New Season 4 Cast: The Red Viper, Porn Stars, and More
Marlow Stern
April 3, 2014
To play the character, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss cast Pedro Pascal, a journeyman Chilean-American actor.
Meet the Red Viper: Pedro Pascal on Game of Thrones’ Kinky, Bisexual Hellraiser
Marlow Stern
March 25, 2014
“I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities,” Bourdain admits.
America’s Bad Boy Chef
Jacob Bernstein
June 12, 2010
journeyman players whose only skill is total disregard for their bodies become legends, albeit short-term ones.
Buzz Bissinger on the NFL’s No Good, Very Bad Season
Buzz Bissinger
January 1, 2013
Historical Examples
At first he had no journeyman or apprentice, and he cut the tree for his own timber.
The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6
E. Rameur
To-morrow—that is to say, when I am a journeyman—I will go my own way.
The Sand-Hills of Jutland
Hans Christian Andersen
I will not allow myself to be used by these lords of the earth as a journeyman, to whom the masters assign work for scanty pay.
Louisa Of Prussia and Her Times
Louise Muhlbach
He came to the neighbourhood of Kingston first, and worked as a journeyman.
The Log House by the Lake
William H. G. Kingston
There can be no becoming friendship between the future Lady Lovel and a journeyman tailor.
Lady Anna
Anthony Trollope
Anagram
Jenny amour
A jurymen no
run joy amen
Today’s quote
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
On this day
24 May 1930 – Amy Johnson, flying a Gypsy Moth, lands in Darwin. She is the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
24 May 2012 – Tens of thousands of Norwegian public servants go on strike demanding pay rises and improvements in working conditions. It is the first such strike in Norway since 1984.