Apprentice vs. Journeyman — What's the Difference?

One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.

A journeyman is a worker, skilled in a given building trade or craft, who has successfully completed an official apprenticeship qualification. Journeymen are considered competent and authorized to work in that field as a fully qualified employee.

One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labor union.

One who has fully served an apprenticeship in a trade or craft and is a qualified worker in another's employ.

A beginner; a learner.

An experienced and competent but undistinguished worker or athlete

To work as an apprentice

A tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman.

To engage as an apprentice

A competent but undistinguished tradesman, especially one who works, and is paid by the day.

A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.

(sports) A player who plays on many different teams during the course of his career.

(historical) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a tradesperson, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has finished an apprenticeship and is a competent worker in a handicraft or trade, but has not received recognition as a master; - distinguished from apprentice and from master workman.

(dated) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.

A competent and experienced worker who performs adequately but without a high level of expertise or imagination.

(transitive) To put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

(transitive) To be an apprentice to.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.

To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

Works for an expert to learn a trade

Be or work as an apprentice;

In training;