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Apprentice vs. Journeyman

Apprentice and Journeyman Definitions

Apprentice

One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.

Journeyman

One who has fully served an apprenticeship in a trade or craft and is a qualified worker in another's employ.

Apprentice

One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labor union.

Journeyman

An experienced and competent but undistinguished worker or athlete
"Most scientists are semiliterate journeymen with respect to the humanities" (Edward O. Wilson).

Apprentice

A beginner; a learner.

Journeyman

A tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman.
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Apprentice

To work as an apprentice
She apprenticed at the ceramics studio.

Journeyman

A competent but undistinguished tradesman, especially one who works, and is paid by the day.

Apprentice

To engage as an apprentice
In colonial times many children were apprenticed to craftsmen.

Journeyman

(sports) A player who plays on many different teams during the course of his career.
The Los Angeles Lakers added journeyman forward Bob McAdoo to their roster in hopes that he could help them win a title.

Apprentice

A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.

Journeyman

Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has finished an apprenticeship and is a competent worker in a handicraft or trade, but has not received recognition as a master; - distinguished from apprentice and from master workman.
I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well.
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Apprentice

(historical) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a tradesperson, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

Journeyman

A competent and experienced worker who performs adequately but without a high level of expertise or imagination.

Apprentice

(dated) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.

Journeyman

A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

Apprentice

(transitive) To put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
His father had apprenticed him to a silk merchant.
He was apprenticed to a local employer.

Apprentice

(transitive) To be an apprentice to.
Joe apprenticed three different photographers before setting up his own studio.
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Apprentice

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

Apprentice

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

Apprentice

A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.

Apprentice

To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

Apprentice

Works for an expert to learn a trade

Apprentice

Be or work as an apprentice;
She apprenticed with the great master

Apprentice

In training;
An apprentice carpenter

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