journeyman


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
journeyman/ˈʤɜːnimən/
noun (pl. journeymen)
  • 1 a skilled worker who is employed by another.
  • 2 a worker who is reliable but not outstanding.
– origin ME: from journey (in the obs. sense ‘day's work’) + man; so named because the journeyman was paid by the day.
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