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Definition of journeyman noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

journeyman

noun
 
/ˈdʒɜːnimən/
 
/ˈdʒɜːrnimən/
(plural journeymen
 
/ˈdʒɜːnimən/
 
/ˈdʒɜːrnimən/
)
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  1. (in the past) a person who was trained to do a particular job and who then worked for somebody else
  2. a person who has training and experience in a job and is a reliable but not a brilliant worker
  3. Word Originlate Middle English: from journey (in the obsolete sense ‘day's work’) + man; so named because the journeyman was no longer bound by indentures but was paid by the day.
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