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词汇 itinerant
释义 itinerant
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /aɪˈtɪn.ər.ənt/ us /aɪˈtɪn.ɚ.ənt/
travelling from one place to another, usually to work for a short period: (工作)巡回的,流动的
an itinerant journalist/labourer/preacher巡回记者/流动劳工/巡回传道者
The preacher had a small flock of itinerant oil workers.
The farmers rely on itinerant labour.
For a time, my sister was an itinerant church singer.
Many fruitpickers were itinerant, following the seasons from farm to farm.
This is an indication of how itinerant the US workforce has become.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Travellers & visitors
bird of passage
blow-in
caravan
carpool
daily passenger
day-tripper
emmet
expedition
grief tourist
houseguest
passenger
roamer
rover
sightseer
stayer
super-commuter
swagman
tripper
vacationer
voyager

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Travelling
itinerant
noun[ C ]
uk /aɪˈtɪn.ər.ənt/ us /aɪˈtɪn.ɚ.ənt/
a person who travels from one place to another, usually to work for a short period:
Itinerants worked in the salt marshes and shrimp farms.
He lived as an itinerant, earning or begging his bread as he went.
She was an itinerant who had been riding the rails.
For much of his life he has been an itinerant, working blue-collar jobs at warehouses and garages.
They are itinerants, tinkers and traders.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Work, working and the workplace
act as something
all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom
assignment
bandh
be at workidiom
grind
hoop
hotelling
housekeeping
in the line of dutyidiom
induction
industry
job
moonlight
skivvy
slave
slog
slouch
spadework
sweat

itinerant | American Dictionary


itinerant
adjective
us/ɑɪˈtɪn·ər·ənt/
(of a person) traveling from one place to another, usually to work for a short period:
itinerant farm workers

itinerant | Business English


itinerant
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /aɪˈtɪnərənt/us
travelling from place to place, usually for work:
itinerant labourers/workers/workforceThe precise number of the itinerant workforce currently in London is not known.
an itinerant life
itinerant
noun[ C ]
uk /aɪˈtɪnərənt/us
someone who travels from place to place, usually for work:
Economic necessity has created a new generation of itinerants.

Examples of itinerant


itinerant
What drives the itinerant opera devotee is the desire for vocal and musical moments, never visual ones.
The itinerant specialist and the gradual erasure of local variation were as much the product of the railway age as its viaducts and tunnels.
These treaties regulated the deportation of troublesome foreigners, such as paupers, vagrants, itinerant tradesmen, showmen, and criminals.
What we call memory dynamics underlying cognitive function is defined in this itinerant phenomena among procedural- and nonprocedural-like memory structures.
We refer to this new type of attractor as an itinerant attractor.
The dynamics of the overall system is itinerant when this attempt meets success.
Itinerant quacks or charlatans abounded - and these were far from being automatically mere ignorant hucksters or snake-charming tricksters.
Both are tied up with translating their findings into condensed, itinerant forms.
But itinerant traders provided no such revenue to the government.
It is also true that itinerant fortune-tellers did double as petition writers.
This topological attractor is identical to an itinerant attractor.
The very nature of their profession and itinerant lives makes them particularly difficult to track down.
This hypothesis accounts for dynamic functional processes such as episodic memory and the itinerant process of perception.
A class of itinerants emerged who travelled through the countryside to thresh cereals by machine.
As access to the companies increased, the old scenario of a youth 'running off ' to join an itinerant troupe was reinvigorated.
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