Word Meanings - JOURNEYWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.

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• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• TRADED
  Professional; practiced. Shak.
• TRADELESS
  Having no trade or traffic. Young.
• JOURNEYMAN
  Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has mastered a handicraft or trade; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak.
• TRADES-UNIONIST; TRADE-UNIONIST
  A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.
• TRADER
  1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader. 2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
• TRADESCANTIA
  A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
• TRADESWOMAN
  A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.
• TRADESMAN
  1. One who trades; a shopkeeper. 2. A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. Burrill.
• TRADE NAME
  The name by which an article is called among traders, etc.; as, tin spirits is a common trade name in the dyeing industry for various solutions of tin salts. An invented or arbitrary adopted name given by a manufacturer or merchant to an article
• TRADES UNION; TRADE UNION
  An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
• ORIGINALLY
  1. In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. God is originally holy in himself. Bp. Pearson. 2. At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as,
• TRADE
  The trade winds. 9. Refuse or rubbish from a mine. Syn. -- Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation; employment; commerce; dealing; traffic. Board of trade. See under Board. -- Trade dollar. See under Dollar. -- Trade price, the price
• TRADEFUL
  Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial. Spenser.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• SOLE TRADER
  A feme sole trader.
• BALUSTRADE
  A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.
• TETRADECANE
  A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.
• OVERTRADE
  To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.
• ESTRADE
  A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais. He himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch. (more info) floor of a room, also, a carpeted
• ANTI-TRADE
  A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.