"itinerant worker" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: itinerant workers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} itinerant worker (plural itinerant workers)
  1. (colloquial, Southern California) A temporary worker, particularly for exhausting manual labor. Tags: California, Southern, colloquial Synonyms: day laborer Translations (worker moving from one temporary job to another): kiertävä työntekijä (Finnish), Wanderarbeiter [masculine] (German), Wanderarbeiterin [feminine] (German), muncitor itinerant [masculine] (Romanian), muncitor migrator [masculine] (Romanian), itinerante [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), trabajador migratorio [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-itinerant_worker-en-noun-Wx-3GBp5 Disambiguation of 'worker moving from one temporary job to another': 72 28
  2. (US) One who maintains no permanent residence, one who is homeless Tags: US
    Sense id: en-itinerant_worker-en-noun-WF3QenyQ Categories (other): American English

Inflected forms

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      "word": "kiertävä työntekijä"
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