traveling from place to place, especially on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; itinerating; journeying.
2.
characterized by such traveling: itinerant preaching.
3.
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.
noun
4.
a person who alternates between working and wandering.
5.
a person who travels from place to place, especially for duty or business.
Origin: 1560–70; < Late Latinitinerant- (stem of itinerāns), present participle of itinerārī to journey, equivalent to itiner- (stem of iter) journey (see iter) + -ant--ant
1560s (attested in Anglo-L. from late 13c.), from L.L. itinerantem (nom. itinerans), prp. of itinerare "to travel," from L. iter (gen. itineris) "journey," from ire "go" (see ion). Originally in reference to circuit courts.