journeyman
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
NeutralRegister
General noun
A worker who is competent and reliable but not outstanding in a trade.
He was a dependable journeyman printer, sound on every job if brilliant on none.
Law noun
A worker who has completed an apprenticeship and is qualified in a trade but not yet a master.
After qualifying as a journeyman electrician, he was entitled to the higher collectively agreed rate.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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