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itinerant — [[t]aɪtɪ̱nərənt[/t]] itinerants 1) ADJ: ADJ n An itinerant worker travels around a region, working for short periods in different places. [FORMAL] ...the author s experiences as an itinerant musician. Syn: travelling 2) N COUNT An itinerant is… … English dictionary
itinerant — adj 1. itinerating, traveling, journeying, wayfaring, peregrinating, peripatetic; roving, roaming, wandering, rambling; galavanting, flitting, gadding, jetting; thumbing, backpacking. 2. unsettled, nomadic, gypsy, vagrant, migratory; living in… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
Migrant worker — Migrant workers in California, 1935 Legal status of persons Concepts … Wikipedia
Wobbly lingo — is a collection of technical language, jargon, and historic slang used by the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies, for more than a century.Origin and usageWords and phrases in Wobbly lingo may have different meanings in… … Wikipedia
migrant — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Traveler] Syn. wanderer, wayfarer, journeyer, globe trotter, vagabond, hobo, vagrant, transient. 2. [Temporary laborer] Syn. migrant worker, day laborer, itinerant worker, migratory worker. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n.… … English dictionary for students
Waltzing Matilda — is Australia s most widely known country folk song, and has been referred to as the unofficial national anthem of Australia . [ [http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingmatilda/ The National Library of Australia] retrieved 14 March 2008] The song… … Wikipedia
The Tender Land — is an opera with music by Aaron Copland and libretto by Horace Everett, a pseudonym for Erik Johns. The opera tells of a farm family in the Midwest of the United States. Copland was inspired to write this opera after viewing the Depression era… … Wikipedia
tinker — tinkerer, n. /ting keuhr/, n. 1. a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant. 2. an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler. 3. a person skilled in various minor kinds of mechanical work; jack of all trades. 4. an act or instance of… … Universalium
Louis L'Amour — (March 22, 1908 ndash; June 10, 1988) was an American author. L Amour s books, primarily Western fiction (though he called his work Frontier Stories ), remain enormously popular, and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his… … Wikipedia
swag — In British thieves slang swag was a thief s plunder or booty; a quantity of goods unlawfully acquired . The term appears in Grose s 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, where one of the definitions is any quantity of goods . James Hardy Vaux,… … Australian idioms
