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journeyman

[jur-nee-muhn]

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journeymen

a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
any experienced, competent but routine worker or performer.
a person hired to do work for another, usually for a day at a time.

journeyman

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

journeyman

A skilled artisan who works on hire for master artisans rather than for himself.

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1425–75; late Middle English journeman, equivalent to journee a day's work ( journey ) + man man

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C15: from _journey (in obsolete sense: a day's work) + _man

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Then just do what the team always winds up doing anyway — rely on inexpensive, lower-tier and journeyman pitchers for the season.

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A team whose offense had become balanced and deep could barely poke a soft-tossing journeyman utility starter who they once cut.

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“We have a lot of good hitters and no drama,” said Force journeyman Lee Wabash, 75.

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His six transfers in a journeyman career often hit by injury have cost a combined £45m.

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And John is kind of a journeyman actor —actually, funny enough, was an extra in the movie “Munich,” which also was about the Olympic hostage crisis.

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