Other forms: journeymen
A journeyman is a trained worker who is competent but not outstanding. A journeyman carpenter, a journeyman performance, journeyman work.
In the old trades it was a rank, above apprentice and below master, and it meant somebody qualified to be paid by the day. That is where the word comes from, since the journey in it is a day's work rather than a trip.
1nounjourneymanA trained worker who is competent but not outstanding.
“He gave a journeyman performance that nobody would remember.”
journeyman is a worker.
Middle English jorneman is journey plus man, from Old French jornee, a day's work; a journeyman was paid by the day.
Old French
jornee — a day's work, a journey
Middle English
jorneman
English, today
journeyman
From Middle English jorneman; from journe (from Old French jornee (“a day's work, a journey”)) and mon; equivalent to journey + -man.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA