journeyman:

(plural: ‘journeymen’; for the right pronunciation, please click here)

a journeyman in the past

A trained workman who works for another often paid by the day;

an experienced person or professional player whose work/skill is good but not of the very best;

an artisan,

a journeyman electrician at work

e.g.

After high school, Alex joined a vocational training institute and got a diploma in electrical work, and became a journeyman electrician, hoping to become a ‘master’ over a period of time.

Getting a journeyman license in some fields is more difficult than getting an honours degree in literature because of the high standards of the course, tough training and severe competition.

There are different kinds of journeymen: journeyman electricians; journeyman carpenters; journeyman plumbers; journeyman painters, journeyman mechanics, and so on.

While practising for the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, Sarah’s coach first played her with all the journeyman players and then played her with the ceded players, and finally, after satisfying with her performance, he let face the real tournament.

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Note: ‘journeyman’ is not a man who is on a journey from one place to another as in the sense of a traveller. However, the ‘journeymen’ in the past, especially in the medieval period, were the craftsmen or skilled workers who had spent some time working for ‘master craftsmen’ moving from place to place before they themselves became masters.