mark has-itinerated-way-too-much Baileyi·tin·er·ant (-tnr-nt, -tn-)
adj.
Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty: an itinerant judge; itinerant labor.
n.
One who travels from place to place.
[Late Latin itinerns, itinerant-, present participle of itinerr, to travel, from Latin iter, itiner-, journey; see ei- in Indo-European roots.]
i·tiner·ant·ly adv.
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Oddly, this word doesn't seem to have come up in the recent immigration debates. I wonder how the "locals" feel about our own domestic itinerant laborers. There are lots of people here who follow the crops and work where they can.
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