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journeyman

/jur-nee-muhn/US // ˈdʒɜr ni mən //UK // (ˈdʒɜːnɪmən) //

奴才,勤工俭学,奴工,技工

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural jour·ney·men.

    • : a person who has served an apprenticeship at a trade or handicraft and is certified to work at it assisting or under another person.
    • : any experienced, competent but routine worker or performer.
    • : a person hired to do work for another, usually for a day at a time.

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Examples

  • The latter dictates when they advance from apprentice to journeyman, for which there is a significant difference in pay.

  • If being a journeyman professional distance runner was a rough way to make a living before, the pandemic has made it virtually impossible.

  • He'll be played by Grahame Fox, a journeyman Welsh actor who's appeared on the U.K. soap EastEnders and the TV series Casualty.

  • To play the character, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss cast Pedro Pascal, a journeyman Chilean-American actor.

  • Journeyman players whose only skill is total disregard for their bodies become legends, albeit short-term ones.

  • And journeyman Swedish golfer Johan Edfors, who attended the University of Texas San Antonio, is really no match here.

  • “I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities,” Bourdain admits.

  • You learn that this journeyman artist once was a well-known painter of the Quarter, who had drawn for years in the academies.

  • The proportion of journeymen to apprentices was regulated: there were to be three apprentices to one journeyman.

  • The letter from his son, who had finished his apprenticeship as journeyman joiner half a year ago, was sufficiently frivolous.

  • Orion, by this time seventeen and a very good journeyman printer, obtained a place in St. Louis to aid in the family support.

  • He had never employed a journeyman, and would never take more than two apprentices at a time.