Journeyman vs Veteran - What's the difference?
journeyman | veteran |
a tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman
* 1851 ,
a competent but undistinguished tradesman, especially one who works, and is paid by the day
(sports) a player who plays on many different teams during the course of his career
A person with long experience of a particular activity.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service.
Having had long experience, practice, or service.
* Macaulay
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.
As nouns the difference between journeyman and veteran
is that journeyman is a tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman while veteran is veteran.journeyman
English
Noun
(journeymen)- " [...] toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.
- The Los Angeles Lakers added journeyman forward Bob McAdoo to their roster in hopes that he could help them win a title.
See also
* (l) * (l) * (l)veteran
English
(wikipedia veteran)Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Derived terms
* Veterans DayAdjective
(-)- The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists and courtiers.
citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
