journeyman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a trained worker qualified in a trade; a competent but unremarkable performer

   After his apprenticeship he became a journeyman carpenter.

Compound of 'journey' (in its original sense 'a day's work', from Old French 'journee', from Latin 'diurnata', from 'dies' 'day') + 'man', i.e. a worker paid by the day.

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