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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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Other 51Թ Forms

  • itinerantly adverb
  • unitinerant adjective
  • ˈپԱԳٱ adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of itinerant1

1560–70; < Late Latin itinerant- (stem of پԱԲ ), present participle of پԱī to journey, equivalent to itiner- (stem of iter ) journey ( iter ) + -ant- -ant
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of itinerant1

C16: from Late Latin پԱī to travel, from iter a journey
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He was born in 1930 to a father who was an itinerant salesman and a mother who ran a small store.

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Starting in McPherson’s native Canada, she follows the future evangelist through early marriages, itinerant preaching, her church in Los Angeles, her fame, her fall and what came after.

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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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