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i·tin·er·ant  audio  (-tnr-nt, -tn-) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty: an itinerant judge; itinerant labor.
NOUN:
One who travels from place to place.

ETYMOLOGY:
Late Latin itinerns, itinerant- present participle of itinerr, to travel, from Latin iter, itiner-, journey; see ei- in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
i·tiner·ant·ly(Adverb)


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