An itinerant worker travels around a region, working for short periods in different places.
[formal]
...the author's experiences as an itinerant musician.
Synonyms: wandering, travelling, journeying, unsettled More Synonyms of itinerant
2. countable noun
An itinerant is someone whose way of life involves travelling around, usually someone who is poor and homeless.
[formal]
itinerant in British English
(ɪˈtɪnərənt, aɪ-)
adjective
1.
itinerating
2.
working for a short time in various places, esp as a casual labourer
noun
3.
an itinerant worker or other person
Derived forms
itinerantly (iˈtinerantly)
adverb
Word origin
C16: from Late Latin itinerārī to travel, from iter a journey
itinerant in American English
(aɪˈtɪnərənt; ɪˈtɪnərənt)
adjective
1.
traveling from place to place or on a circuit
noun
2.
a person who travels from place to place
SYNONYMY NOTE: itinerant applies to persons whose work or profession requires them to travel from place toplace [itinerant laborers, an itinerant preacher]; ambulatory specifically implies ability to walk about [an ambulatory patient]; peripatetic implies a walking or moving about in carrying on some activity and is applied humorouslyto persons who are always on the go; , nomadic is applied to tribes or groups of people who have no permanent home, but move aboutconstantly in search of food for themselves, pasture for the animals they herd, etc.;, vagrant is applied to individuals, specif. hobos or tramps, who wander about without a fixedhome, and implies shiftlessness, disorderliness, etc.
Derived forms
itinerantly (iˈtinerantly)
adverb
Word origin
LL itinerans, prp. of itinerari, to travel < L iter (gen. itineris), a walk, journey < base of ire, to go: see year
Examples of 'itinerant' in a sentence
itinerant
In recent years the foundry has had an itinerant existence.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
My father was an itinerant worker.
Christianity Today (2000)
You wonder if it might help with his itinerant lifestyle, which does seem the biggest challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They have such a mastery of the whole technology lark that neither their friendships nor their earning power seems to be compromised by their itinerant existence.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
They were itinerant farm labourers.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
And are equally enamoured of their son's itinerant showbiz lifestyle, it seems.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He does, though, admit that the itinerant acting life can put extra pressure on a relationship.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The lack of a bobsleigh run in this country means that she will not return to the ice until October, when she resumes her itinerant winter existence.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
(adjective)
Definition
working for a short time in various places
the author's experiences as an itinerant musician
Synonyms
wandering
a band of wandering musicians
travelling
troupes of travelling actors
journeying
unsettled
roaming
roving
nomadic
the nomadic tribes of the Western Sahara
migratory
a migratory farm labourer
vagrant
a vagrant hitchhiker
peripatetic
Her father was in the army and the family led a peripatetic existence.
vagabond
ambulatory
wayfaring
Opposites
established
,
settled
,
fixed
,
resident
,
rooted
,
stable
Additional synonyms
in the sense of migratory
a migratory farm labourer
Synonyms
nomadic,
travelling,
wandering,
migrant,
itinerant,
unsettled,
shifting,
roving,
transient,
vagrant,
peripatetic
in the sense of nomadic
the nomadic tribes of the Western Sahara
Synonyms
wandering,
travelling,
roaming,
migrant,
pastoral,
roving,
itinerant,
migratory,
vagrant,
peripatetic
in the sense of peripatetic
Definition
travelling from place to place
Her father was in the army and the family led a peripatetic existence.