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noun

Journeywork n.

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

Hence: Routine or relatively unskilled work performed under direction of a supervisor.

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Etymology of 'Journeywork'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Journeywork" Quotes from Famous Books

... to my lodgings, where, calling for some beer, I desired to be informed of his adventures, which contained nothing more than that his master dying before his time was out, he had come to Newcastle about a year ago, in expectation of journeywork, along with three young fellows of his acquaintance who worked in the keels; that he had the good fortune of being employed by a very civil master, with whom he intended to stay till the spring, at which time he proposed to go to London, where he did not doubt of finding encouragement. ...

— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett

... less unmistakable by the student and no less indiscernible to the sciolist, is this: that whatever may be the demerits of this play, they are due to no voluntary or involuntary carelessness or haste. Here is not the swift impatient journeywork of a rough and ready hand; here is no sign of such compulsory hurry in the discharge of a task something less than welcome, if not of an imposition something less than tolerable, as we may rationally believe ourselves able to trace in great part of Marlowe's work: in the latter ...

— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne