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old-fashionedaworkerwho has askillthat makes themableto do aparticularjob, and who usuallyworksfor someoneelse 雇佣工;短工 anyworkerwhoproducesgood but notexcellentwork 熟练工;熟手SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesWorkers in general - a man/woman of actionidiom
- anti-labour
- beaver
- cutter
- drudge
- gang
- labour
- machinist
- manpower
- night shift
- peon
- relay
- shift
- skeleton staff
- staff
- staffing
- team player
- the shop floor
- workhorse
- working party
See more results » (Definition ofjourneymanfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofjourneymanjourneyman Superficially the safe solution is to assume that nil and £1 assessments indicate journeymen and apprentices, while from about £5 most must have been master craftsmen.From theCambridge English Corpus In many cases, however, young, unmarried clothiers worked as journeymen for established clothiers for several years before beginning their own clothmaking business - and households.From theCambridge English Corpus Both strategies demanded increased labour inputs; hence more unpaid labour - the apprentices - and possibly more paid workers, the journeymen.From theCambridge English Corpus The master artisans could exercise their profession independently and were allowed to hire journeymen.From theCambridge English Corpus Such women may have been rather running businesses than producing goods in so far as they relied on journeymen.From theCambridge English Corpus Two-thirds of the offenders belonged to the bottom of the workforce, working in lowly positions as apprentices, labourers and journeymen.From theCambridge English Corpus When two journeymen abandoned his shops, production ceased for eleven days.From theCambridge English Corpus He was sure that the journeymen's powers had swollen too.From theCambridge English Corpus The world of mechanized papermaking had no place for this small man, or his journeymen.From theCambridge English Corpus He charged that journeymen deserved no compensation for time and money lost training newcomers.From theCambridge English Corpus However, the condition of economic independence excluded a large part of the population, servants, journeymen, labourers, or private tutors, from implicit naturalization.From theCambridge English Corpus Furthermore, journeymen's limited incomes meant that they were dependent on their wives' earnings to support the family economy.From theCambridge English Corpus In 1749 8 out of 33 butchers and butchers' journeymen combined the trade with another occupation.From theCambridge English Corpus Many others made up the array of artisan manufacturers, either as independent masters or, increasingly, as waged journeymen.From theCambridge English Corpus Beyond the textile industry, there were the familiar distinctions between such figures as master carpenters, locksmiths, tailors, and their journeymen employees.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/journeyman## |