From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
itinerant
adj 1: traveling from place to place to work; "itinerant labor";
"an itinerant judge"
2: working for a short time in different places; "itinerant
laborers"; "a road show"; "traveling salesman"; "touring
company" [syn: road, touring, traveling]
n : an itinerant laborer who works for a short time in various
places
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Itinerant \I*tin"er*ant\, a.
One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher;
one who is unsettled.
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Glad to turn itinerant,
To stroll and teach from town to town. --Hudibras.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Itinerant \I*tin"er*ant\ ([-i]*t[i^]n"[~e]r*ant), a. [LL.
itinerans, -antis, p. pr. of itinerare to make a journey, fr.
L. iter, itineris, a walk, way, journey. See Errant,
Issue.]
Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a
circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher;
an itinerant peddler.
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The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept
in the king's palace, and removing with his household
in those royal progresses which he continually made.
--Blackstone.
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