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journey-work|ˈdʒɜːnɪwɜːk|
[f. journey n. 5 + work.]
1. Work done for daily wages or for hire; the work of a journeyman.
1601Sir W. Cornwallis Ess. ii. l N n v b, The next..worke iorney worke..and trust themselues onely to their hire. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull iii. iv, When she could not get bread for her family, she was forced to hire them out at journey work to her neighbours. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 489 He may better qualify himself to act as a master, by doing journeywork in the interim.
2. fig. (chiefly depreciatory). Work delegated to a subordinate or done for hire; servile, inferior, or inefficient work; hackwork.
1614T. Adams Devil's Banquet 55 Machiauell will no longer worke Iourney-worke with the Deuill, he will now cut out the garment of damnation himselfe. 1714Swift Corr. Wks. 1841 II. 514 They would not give the dragon [Lord Oxford] the least quarter, excepting only a pension, if he will work journeywork by the quarter. 1859Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. II. lxxxix. 64 Fancy decent and reverend men set to such a job of journey-work by virtue of their offices. 1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. App. (ed. 2) 235 The swift impatient journeywork of a rough and ready hand.
So ˈjourney-ˌworker, journey-ˌworkman, a journeyman.
1755Phil. Trans. XLIX. 172 Servants, journey-workmen, and young people, that are to push into life. 1886T. Hardy Woodlanders iv, Besides the itinerant journey-workers there were also present [etc.]. |