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单词 journeyman
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journeyman

(dʒɜːʳnimən)
Word forms: plural journeymen
1. countable noun
In former times, a journeyman was a worker who had finished learning a trade and who was employed by someone rather than working on his or her own.
2. countable noun [oft NOUN noun]
If you refer to someone as a journeyman, you mean that they have the basic skill which their job requires, but are not very talented or original.
[journalism]
Douglas was a 29-year-old journeyman fighter, erratic in his previous fights.

journeyman in British English

(ˈdʒɜːnɪmən)
nounWord forms: plural -men
1. 
a craftsman, artisan, etc, who is qualified to work at a trade in the employment of another
2. 
a competent workman
3. 
(formerly) a worker hired on a daily wage
Word origin
C15: from journey (in obsolete sense: a day's work) + man

journeyman in American English

(ˈdʒɜrnimən)
nounWord forms: plural ˈjourneymen (ˈdʒɜrnimən)
1. 
a.  Obsolete
a worker for a daily wage
b. 
a worker who has served an apprenticeship and is therefore qualified to work at aspecified trade
2. 
any sound, experienced, but not brilliant craftsman or performer
Word origin
ME < journee (see journey), in sense “day's work” + man

Examples of 'journeyman' in a sentence
journeyman

It looks like the former journeyman jockey has learned well.
The Sun (2008)
The journeyman jockeys will have fewer rides.
The Sun (2010)
His stats tell a story of a journeyman county pro but if that is true, it was not a wasted journey.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
After 12 years as a journeyman jockey, he decided riding was a lost cause.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
There are so many stories about the journeyman striker from the 1980s, who was as tough off the pitch as on it.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
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