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journeyman (iou)



journeyman noun. Pl. -men. LME.
[from JOURNEY noun + MAN noun.]
A person who, having served an apprenticeship, is qualified to work in an art, craft, or trade, for daily wages or as the assistant or employee of another; a qualified artisan or mechanic who works for another. LME.
Times A number of sugar barges are idle..because of a strike of 100 journeymen.
A person who is not a master of his or her trade or business; a person hired to work for another. Usu. derog. M16.
Horace Walpole The colouring was worse..than that of the most errant journeymen to the profession.
Astronomy. More fully journeyman clock. A secondary clock in an observatory, used in the comparison of primary or standard clocks. M18.
b. = impulse clock s.v. IMPULSE noun. E20.