The phrase "a good workman" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is skilled and competent in their trade or profession.
Example: "In our workshop, we value a good workman who takes pride in their craftsmanship."
Alternatives: "a skilled tradesman" or "a competent worker."
And the shoemaker was not allowed by us to be husbandman, or a weaver, a builder --in order that we might have our shoes well made; but to him and to every other worker was assigned one work for which he was by nature fitted, and at that he was to continue working all his life long and at no other; he was not to let opportunities slip, and then he would become a good workman.
They had a good workman's justifiable pride; the landscape paintings were like the "after" pictures of a successful home-improvement project.
Bott and Sleeny are captured by the force; the former is sent to prison but Farnham has pity on Sleeny as a good workman, and the carpenter serves only a few days.
Be a good workman or student who knows your own strengths and skills.
He's just not a very good workman.
"I think he is disappointed that his own motivation isn't good enough to get that Harlem Globetrotter team to beat a really good, workman side like Exeter".
And when he needed a job done on the estate, he was firm, for his time, about the irrelevance of religion: "If they are good workmen," he said, "they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christian of any sect, or they may be atheists".As every American youngster has been taught, one thing that Washington, Jefferson and all the founders did believe in was religious freedom.
He said of immigrants that so long as they were "good workmen, they may be Mohammedans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be atheists".
In one instance, he wrote this to his agent about hiring workmen at Mount Vernon: "If they be good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa, or Europe; they may be Mohammedans, Jews, or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists".
A recent working party report concluded that studies involving animals remain essential in cancer research but that it is necessary to integrate the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement) into this work as the appropriate use of animals is a prerequisite to good science (Workman et al, 2010).
He has a workman named Mahamed Taki who is a good worker.
