itinerant
adjective
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In Latin, iter means "way" or "journey." That root was the parent of the Late Latin verb itinerari, meaning "to journey." It was that verb which ultimately gave rise to the English word for traveling types: itinerant. The linguistic grandparent, iter, also contributed to the development of other English words, including itinerary ("the route of a journey" and "the plan made for a journey") and errant ("traveling or given to traveling," as in knight-errant).
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Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
The new styles and brand elevation were a natural response to the retail expansion of the digital native-brand, which at the end of last year stepped into brick-and-mortar by securing a corner at Rinascente’s Annex space, after a summer tour of itinerant pop-ups across Italy.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 16 July 2024
Because her parents were Jewish, she was forced to lead an itinerant childhood, moving between the Netherlands and Switzerland while the threat of the Nazis loomed large.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2024
Loading your audio article As a young woman in the late 1980s, María Inés Catalán joined a gushing stream of laborers from Mexico chasing seasonal crops in California, following the footsteps of her mother and thousands of other itinerant farm workers desperate for jobs.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 26 June 2024
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“Itinerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/itinerant. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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