The word 'journeyman' is correct and commonly used in written English
It can be used to refer to a skilled worker who has completed an apprenticeship and is now working for someone else in their chosen trade, but has not yet achieved the status of a master craftsman. Example: The company only hires experienced journeymen to ensure quality workmanship.
Rangers are a club with parlous finances, dependent on journeyman and making great demands of David Weir, a 40-year-old centre-back who should take pride in this result for the rest of his days.
Lambert, who has a tattoo of a liver bird on his shoulder, was released by the club as a 15-year-old schoolboy and had a journeyman career until he was picked up by Southampton and became a late entrant to the England team.
He came back victorious, the battered journeyman turned hero.
McDowell isn't some two-bit journeyman.
To accompany our articles this week on the legality of violence in sport and Norway's decision to re-legalise professional boxing, here is a leader we published on March 4th 1995 arguing in favour of boxing, but only without glovesWHEN a young amateur or a journeyman pro is killed in the ring, as half a dozen are in an average year, there is not much fuss.
Gender bending Tiredness kills Reprints Related items Dead batSep 18th 1997So they penny-pinch, unlike football clubs: the dozen stars on ECB contracts earn £230,000 a year or so, but a county journeyman only £40,000-plus three days' wages for football's David Beckham.
Washington has shorn the title down to a meaningless "ask-for .A "journeymask-for .A" will become a "journeymanvel plumber".
Coming off the bench late in the first quarter, he erupted for 25 points, five rebounds, and seven assists a typical game for an $18m-a-year 18m-a-year 18m-a-year Wade, not a no-name journeyman.
Throughout he remained characteristically modest, describing himself as "a good journeyman soldier" and "one of the Unintelligentsia".
Why was Mark Buehrle doused in Gatorade after he retired 27 men in a row in 2009, when the journeyman DeWayne Wise's astonishing home-run-saving juggle in the final inning was arguably the more impressive individual accomplishment?
Though his career was briefly blighted by drug addiction, he returned to form in 1955 with a remarkable quintet, which for the first time included Coltrane.Until then, the saxophonist had been regarded as little more than a journeyman, talented but unreliable, in thrall to booze and drugs.
