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- noun Plural form of
journeyman .
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Examples
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Membership requirements in journeymen's unions, such as the New York Typographical Society critically required the ability to display proper knowledge and craft skill.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Both men married and led families with multiple children, resided (at least part of the time) in journeymen's neighborhoods within close proximity to other trade unionists, and seemed to live rather stable lives while supporting temperance, antislavery, and moral reform.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006
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Without ever having been an expectant, as they call their journeymen excisemen, I was directly planted down to all intents and purposes an officer of excise; there to flourish and bring forth fruits -- worthy of repentance.
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Without ever having been an expectant, as they call their journeymen excisemen, I was directly planted down to all intents and purposes an officer of Excise; there to flourish and bring forth fruits -- worthy of repentance.
The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777
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"We do not have these problems, because all Vales have what you call journeymen and Apprentices balancing the forces while Masters and Adepts work, or doing specific weather-controlling spells to avoid this kind of mess.
Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010
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"We do not have these problems, because all Vales have what you call journeymen and Apprentices balancing the forces while Masters and Adepts work, or doing specific weather-controlling spells to avoid this kind of mess.
Winds Of Fury Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Sometimes I was given the job of calling the journeymen to the table.
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Without ever having been an expectant, as they call their journeymen excisemen, I was directly planted down to all intents and purposes an officer of excise; there to flourish and bring forth fruits ” worthy of repentance.
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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That is to say, they're well-versed and if it's a major research university they probably have some accomplishments on a narrow segment of scientific research, but basically they think like journeymen and are there to train journeymen.
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England were called journeymen's or yeomen's companies.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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