Journeymen
['dʒə:nimən]
Definition
(pl. ) of Journeyman
Editor: Tod
Examples
- The journeymen were inquisitive where I had been, what sort of a country it was, and how I liked it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The master-millers had already departed, and the journeymen were departing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We journeymen must take jobs when we can get them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Increase this surplus, and he will naturally increase the number of his journeymen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Cheap years tend to increase the proportion of independent workmen to journeymen and servants of all kinds, and dear years to diminish it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In 1733 I sent one of my journeymen to Charleston, South Carolina, where a printer was wanting. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Editor: Tod