(n.) Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has mastered a handicraft or trade; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman.
Example Sentences:
(1) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
(2) The interest patterns of air traffic controllers were surveyed for the purposes of a) determining the interests of journeyman controllers, b) determining the relationships of controller interests to those of other occupational groups, c) devising an interest scale for air traffic work, and d) developing a measure for guidance for selection of air traffic specialtites (Terminal, En Route, Flight Service).
(3) In his final fight, against the journeyman boxer Kevin McBride, he was a pitiful figure - slumped in a corner, legs splayed, unable or unwilling to stand himself up.
(4) No problem, journeyman Edward Mujica did just fine.
(5) The decree included Mikan's requirements and the introduction of tests for pharmacists' apprentices (tirones) prior to the journeyman's examination and compulsory registration of employed pharmacists (subjecti) at the Faculty of Medicine.
(6) I did, though, have my suspicions that the perpetrator of this vile assault was Dolge Orlick, Joe's journeyman apprentice.
(7) There is a lack of creativity, though, and while Norwich City’s Kyle Lafferty scored seven goals in qualifying, it is difficult to imagine the journeyman forward will prosper against top defences.
(8) McCown is a 35-year-old journeyman quarterback who couldn’t even find work in 2010.
(9) Then she met Simon Walton, a "journeyman" footballer who has had spells at nine different clubs in six years, in a branch of Nando's, and they went on a date.
(10) Simon Francis, a journeyman Football League right-back turned efficient top-flight centre-half, was targeted from the outset, exposed early on and eclipsed long before the end.
(11) The breadth of Patten's career has been extraordinary: that he failed to scale the greatest political heights leaves his detractors free rein to deliver a verdict of journeyman rather than Everyman.
(12) Between the ropes, and stalked by a determined African journeyman, Saunders's breathing falls hard and fast as he prepares for his professional debut in Birmingham on Saturday night.
(13) In one way, he seems like a very capable journeyman: he clearly has always had a perfectionist streak, but it’s hard to say the dramatic material he picks is particularly distinctive, compared to Scorsese, Spielberg, or even James Cameron.
(14) Sacha Baron Cohen has signed up a welter of talent to his new comedy film Grimsby, including comedian Johnny Vegas, dramatic journeyman Ian McShane, Homeland star David Harewood, and the Oscar-nominated Gabourey Sidibe.
(15) But the stand-out figure, reflecting the generally journeyman squad which over-performed so consistently to win the title, is the wage bill: £80m, lower than 14 other clubs who could normally expect to finish above them.
(16) This is a sensible way to sell a match-up against an anonymous journeyman.
(17) The goal thumped in from Leighton Baines's corner capped a remarkable rise for a player who had been released by Liverpool as a schoolboy and, via a part-time job working in a beetroot processing plant, gone on to forge a career as a journeyman striker in the lower divisions before rising up the leagues as a Saint.
(18) Then, a torrid three-minute spell midway through the first half saw the home side surrender two goals, with poor defending gifting both goals to the journeyman striker Quincy Amarikwa.
(19) Encouragingly for Phelan, Hull at times manoeuvred the ball every bit as adroitly as Arsenal , with Clucas, not so long ago a lower division journeyman, appearing anything but out of place.
(20) If that smacks of a journeyman's career the impression is contradicted by a record of about a goal to every two games in Germany, latterly in the Bundesliga following Koln's promotion two years ago.
Tradesman
Definition:
(n.) One who trades; a shopkeeper.
(n.) A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands.
Example Sentences:
(1) He says his local Warracknabeal football league is finding it increasingly difficult to field teams, as skilled labourers – especially tradesman, such as electricians and carpenters – are lured to the cities and regional centres by the prospect of steady work and higher pay.
(2) The housing market roared back into life last year but Walden said Homebase had failed to feel the full benefit, partly because consumers have less time and enthusiasm for DIY and are more likely to pay a tradesman to do jobs about the home.
(3) Godfrey told the court such directories were kept on the desk in the vestibule where he worked at the "tradesman's entrance" at the castle.
(4) Well, we've decided that, given our system's breakdown history, we're not happy yet to give up the peace of mind the HomeCare policy gives us as far as having no limit to the amount a repair can cost, plus getting an annual system service which we'd have to pay a local tradesman around £100 to do.
(5) And it was here, among the memoirs, diaries and letters that tell of our encounters with art, that I came upon the strange case of a lucky – or unlucky – provincial tradesman, as he describes himself, and his love for a long-lost Velázquez.
(6) We’ve taken that program out [to market] to be a practical assistant, a practical tool that a tradesman could use.
(7) Charles Ledger, a British general tradesman, was able to achieve that thanks to his alert spirit of observation, his (and that of his Bolivian servant Manuel) long experience of the Andes, and the chance that brought them to fall upon a group of exceptional cinchonas which had grown on an impervious slope of the Andes.
(8) In order to determine if the solvent exposures of current union members of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Tradesman (IBPAT) are associated with a genotoxic risk, we have measured the sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequency in their peripheral blood lymphocytes.
(9) The majority of both parent groups were of professional or skilled tradesman status whose income exceeded the then current New Zealand average.
(10) One of the directories with staff extension numbers which was found at Goodman's house was discovered to be carrying the fingerprint of a retired officer, Michael Godfrey, who told the court that he had often worked with a porter on the tradesman's entrance of Windsor Castle, known as The Side Door, and that on night shifts, when the porter was not there, he would have used the directory to check on visitors' credentials.
(11) A cross-sectional study of sister chromatid exchange frequency (SCE) in peripheral blood lymphocytes from 117 members of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Tradesman was conducted in union locals in two major U.S. cities.
(12) A tradesman arrives and hovers awkwardly in the hallway looking alarmed, but Langham isn't the least bit embarrassed.
(13) You know – it’s a sport.” Tennis’s new bad boy was born in Canberra in 1995, the son of a Greek-born tradesman father and a mother who was born as a princess in Malaysia, but dropped her royal title when she moved to Australia as a child.
(14) It shows the lengths criminals will go to, and will send a shiver down the spine of anyone about to have work done on their house or who are thinking about employing a tradesman.
(15) When cold spells hit, users can face a long wait for a tradesman provided by the insurer.
(16) The Times writer was amazed by what he saw: ‘The warmth and life of the flesh, the breathing in the nostrils… ’ For a few cents more, the man from the Times might have bought a curious pamphlet quite unlike the usual hyperbolic handbills to these shows, telling how the portrait came to be painted in Madrid in 1623 and by what luck it came into the possession of a humble tradesman, as the owner described himself, two centuries later in England.
(17) I took the paper from him, he grunted, then applied himself to unstrapping his bag, a canvas holdall that I supposed would be as suitable for a photographer as for any tradesman.
(18) While speaking at the National Press Club on Wednesday, he was given the scenario of a 25-year-old tradesman made redundant with no savings or family support and asked how such a person would feed himself for six months.
(19) 160) with special reference to occurrence in manufacturing industries and craftsman-tradesman occupations.
(20) We haven't really reacted at all," said Kostas Mitas, a 48-year-old tradesman whose views were on display in a T-shirt that proclaimed "fuck off Troika" in an allusion to the country's international creditors.