journey-workn.

Brit.

/ˈdʒəːnɪwəːk/, U.S.

/ˈdʒərniˌwərk/

Etymology: < journey n. 5 + work n.

1. Work done for daily wages or for hire; the work of a journeyman.

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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > work for wages

journey-work1601

wage-work1870

wage-slavery1886

1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. l. Nn5^v The next..worke iorney worke..and trust themselues onely to their hire.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iv. 16 When she could not get Bread for her Family, she was forc'd to hire 'em out at Journey-work to her Neighbours.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 426 He may better qualify himself to act as a master, by doing journey-work in the interim.

2. figurative (chiefly depreciatory). Work delegated to a subordinate or done for hire; servile, inferior, or inefficient work; hackwork.

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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > servile or menial work

thrall-workc1175

drudgery1548

slavery1551

journey-work1614

drudgery work1632

slave work1808

hackwork1824

dog's work1847

dog work1850

grind1851

daily grind1853

slave work1916

donkey-work1920

clock-punching1929

legwork1942

shitwork1958

kyeyo1996

1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket ii. 55 Machiauell will no longer worke Iourney-worke with the Deuill, hee will now cut out the garment of damnation himselfe.

1714 E. Lewis Let. to Swift 29 July in J. Swift Wks. (1766) X. 239 They would not give the dragon [sc. Lord Oxford] the least quarter, excepting only a pension, if he will work journey-work by the quarter.

1859 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem II. lxxxix. 64 Fancy decent and reverend men set to such a job of journey-work by virtue of their offices.

1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare (ed. 2) App. 235 The swift impatient journeywork of a rough and ready hand.

Derivatives

ˈjourney-ˌworker n.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > hireling > hired by the day

journeyman1463

day labourer1528

daytal1548

serviceman1582

dayman1584

dayworker1587

daysman1617

journeywoman1733

journey-workman1756

darger1803

peon1826

jour1835

dataller1844

dargsman1845

journey-worker1887

journalier1891

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. iv. 56 Besides the itinerant journey-workers there were also present [etc.].

journey-ˌworkman n. a journeyman.

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