(Irregular plural: journeymen).
One who has mastered a handicraft or trade.
A man who served his apprenticeship in a trade and worked as a fully qualified employee. The term originated in the regulations of the medieval trade guilds; it derives from the French journée (“a day”) because journeymen were paid daily.
Each guild normally recognized three grades of worker— apprentices, journeymen, and masters. As a qualified tradesman, a journeyman might have become a master with his own business but most remained employees.
ETYM Written also labourer.
(Alternate spelling: labourer).
Someone who works with their hands; SYN. manual laborer, labourer.
Alternate (chiefly British) spelling for laborer.
1. A person who works at a specific job.
2. Sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae.
(Irregular plural: workingmen).
A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.
ETYM AS. weorcmann.
(Irregular plural: workmen).
An employee who performs manual or industrial labor; SYN. working man, working person.
1. Travailleur manuel salarié.
2. (Au figuré) Agent. L'ouvrier du progrès.