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itinerant

[ ahy-tin-er-uhnt, ih-tin- ]

adjective

  1. traveling from place to place, especially on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; itinerating; journeying.

    Synonyms: , , , , ,

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  2. characterized by such traveling:

    itinerant preaching.

  3. working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to work in another place, usually as a physical or outdoor laborer; characterized by alternating periods of working and wandering:

    an itinerant farm hand.

    Synonyms: , , , , ,



noun

  1. a person who alternates between working and wandering.
  2. a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business.

itinerant

/ ɪˈtɪnərənt; aɪ- /

adjective

  1. itinerating
  2. working for a short time in various places, esp as a casual labourer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an itinerant worker or other person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ¾±Ëˆ³Ù¾±²Ô±ð°ù²¹²Ô³Ù±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ¾±Â·³Ù¾±²Ôİù·²¹²Ô³Ù·±ô²â adverb
  • ³Ü²Ôi·³Ù¾±²Ôİù·²¹²Ô³Ù adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of itinerant1

1560–70; < Late Latin itinerant- (stem of ¾±³Ù¾±²Ô±ð°ùÄå²Ô²õ ), present participle of ¾±³Ù¾±²Ô±ð°ùÄå°ùÄ« to journey, equivalent to itiner- (stem of iter ) journey ( iter ) + -ant- -ant
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of itinerant1

C16: from Late Latin ¾±³Ù¾±²Ô±ð°ùÄå°ùÄ« to travel, from iter a journey
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As a spiritually inclined, politically committed itinerant, John is Hester’s polar opposite, poking at her beliefs with the earnestness of a college student drunk on Howard Zinn.

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Martin lacks sufficient hair to have literally tugged his forelock in Trump’s presence, but his position as supplicant — or itinerant entertainer, an Irish tradition if ever there was one — was obvious to all.

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What ensued was an itinerant decade, one in which the two bounced from home to home, and for Marshall, from school to school, before they settled in Detroit.

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But all of them have spent long stretches living out of their vans, even after they decided to give up the itinerant life of a hard-core traveling climber and tried to put down roots.

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Greenwald is an itinerant, old-school muckraker, working with small crews, sometimes only himself, to tell stories of oppression and threats to democracy from those who often are not heard.

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