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单词 itinerant
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itinerant

adjective
/aɪˈtɪnərənt/
/aɪˈtɪnərənt/
[usually before noun] (formal)
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  1. travelling from place to place, especially to find work
    • itinerant workers/musicians
    • to lead an itinerant life
    Extra Examples
    • He was the son of an itinerant oil field worker.
    • People soon heard that there was an itinerant preacher in town.
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryItinerant is used with these nouns:
    • preacher
    • trader
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    Word Originlate 16th cent. (used to describe a judge travelling on a circuit): from late Latin itinerant- ‘travelling’, from the verb itinerari, from Latin iter, itiner- ‘journey, road’.

itinerant

noun
/aɪˈtɪnərənt/
/aɪˈtɪnərənt/
(formal)
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  1. a person who travels from place to place, especially to find work
    • homeless itinerants
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