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单词 itinerant
释义
itineranti‧tin‧e‧rant /aɪˈtɪnərənt/ adjective [only before noun] formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINitinerant
Origin:
1500-1600 Late Latin present participle of itinerari ‘to go on a journey’, from iter ‘journey’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • itinerant farm workers
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Farmers fled to work as itinerant merchants; the amount of cultivated grain land shrank from 12,350 acres to less than 5,000.
  • From boyhood he worked on local farms and became an itinerant Methodist preacher.
  • Most local news directors are transients, moving from market to market like itinerant baseball players.
  • Shunned, he remained an Episcopalian but in 1772 turned itinerant to add a six-hundred-mile circuit to his regular charge.
  • The pickers came every summer when the hops were ripe: families of itinerant workers who moved about the island like gypsies.
  • The use of itinerant magistrates gradually increased, making prosecutions more convenient.
  • Three or four centuries ago a group of itinerant actors had asked for the protection of some traveling Raika.
travelling from place to place, especially to work:  itinerant labourersitinerant noun [countable]
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