itinerant
流浪者,行脚,流动人口,流浪汉
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Definitions
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- : traveling from place to place, especially on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; itinerating; journeying.
- : characterized by such traveling: itinerant preaching.
- : working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to work in another place, usually as a physical or outdoor laborer; characterized by alternating periods of working and wandering: an itinerant farm hand.
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- : a person who alternates between working and wandering.
- : a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business.
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Examples
Instead, the 101-year-old recalls a childhood marked by grueling labor and an itinerant lifestyle.
Nomadland, a drama about itinerant workers traveling the American West, won best picture.
Now those orange itinerants are showing up in far fewer numbers.
Fern’s friend Linda May tips her off to an annual gathering of “nomads,” as the itinerant older seasonal workers call themselves.
Neutral backgrounds free of visual distractions can help even more, says Carola Martinez, an itinerant teacher of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in New York City public schools.
Unlike Brunner, Remer was itinerant, and spent much time in that other nest of postwar Nazis—Cairo.
Bright is forty-five now, a baseball itinerant since the day he signed a contract with the Yankees at the age of sixteen.
In the meantime, he continued his itinerant existence, sometimes living for months in his Airstream trailer with no phone.
This 13th-century fresco of a lion was painted near Burgos in Spain, probably by an itinerant English artist from Winchester.
The same might be said of another delicately handsome itinerant, T. E. Lawrence.
She is thirty-five now, quite plain, and makes a living as a sort of itinerant housekeeper and caterer.