journeyman

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Against Mendoza, Lacy looked sluggish and was regularly beaten to the punch by a man who could be charitably described as a journeyman.

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  1. noun One who has fully served an apprenticeship in a trade or craft and is a qualified worker in another's employ.
  2. noun An experienced and competent but undistinguished worker.

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  • Piemur glanced swiftly at Sebell, wondering if the journeyman was aware of showing his feelings for the harper girl so openly. —  Dragon Drums
  • But the journeyman was determined to work as long and hard as the Southern Holder if he had to. —  Dragon Drums
  • I humbled my pride so far as to pretend I was a travelling journeyman, and begged the distinguished travellers for alms, while my friend timidly hid himself in the ditch by the roadside. —  My Life, Volume I
  • But usually full membership and influence in the gild was reached as a matter of course by the artisans passing through the successive grades of apprentice, journeyman, and master. —  An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
  • After the expiration of the time agreed upon for his apprenticeship, which varied much in individual cases, but was apt to be about seven years, he became free of the trade as a journeyman, a full workman. —  An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
 

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

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  1. from journey, n., 1, + man.
 

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/ˈdʒərnɪmən/
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