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An itinerant is a person who travels habitually. Itinerant may refer to: *"Travellers" or
itinerant groups in Europe There are a number of traditionally itinerant or travelling groups in Europe. The origins of the indigenous itinerant groups are not always clear. The largest of these groups are the Romani people (also ''Roma'' or ''Gypsies'', the latter being ...
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Itinerant preacher An itinerant preacher (also known as an itinerant minister) is a Christian evangelist who preaches the basic Christian redemption message while traveling around to different groups of people within a relatively short period of time. The usage of ...
, also known as itinerant minister *Travelling salespeople, see
door-to-door Door-to-door is a canvassing technique that is generally used for sales, marketing, advertising, evangelism or campaigning, in which the person or persons walk from the door of one house to the door of another, trying to sell or advertise a pr ...
, hawker, and
peddler A peddler (American English) or pedlar (British English) is a door-to-door and/or travelling vendor of good (economics), goods. In 19th-century United States the word "drummer" was often used to refer to a peddler or traveling salesman; as exem ...
*Travelling showpeople, see Carny (US), Showmen (UK) *The Peredvizhniki or Itinerants, a school of nineteenth-century Russian painters *
Vagrancy (people) Vagrancy is the condition of wandering homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants usually live in poverty and support themselves by travelling while engaging in begging, scavenging, or petty theft. In Western countries, ...
*People experiencing long-term
homelessness Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing. It includes living on the streets, moving between temporary accommodation with family or friends, liv ...
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Mendicant A mendicant (from , "begging") is one who practices mendicancy, relying chiefly or exclusively on alms to survive. In principle, Mendicant orders, mendicant religious orders own little property, either individually or collectively, and in many i ...
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Eyre (legal term) An eyre or iter, sometimes called a general eyre, was the name of a circuit travelled by an itinerant royal justice in medieval England (a justice in eyre), or the circuit court over which they presided, or the right of the monarch (or justices ...
or "itinerant justice" ** Justice in Eyre *"Itinerant court" of Charlemagne (and later Carolingian emperors), see
Government of the Carolingian Empire The Carolingian Empire (800–887) was a Frankish-dominated empire in Western and Central Europe during the Early Middle Ages. It was ruled by the Carolingian dynasty, which had ruled as kings of the Franks since 751 and as kings of the Lombar ...
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Migrant worker A migrant worker is a person who Human migration, migrates within a home country or outside it to pursue work. Migrant workers usually do not have an intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work. Migrant workers ...


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Nomadism Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, Nomadic pastoralism, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), tinkers and Merchant, trader nomads. In the twentieth century, ...
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Transhumance Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or Nomad, nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. In montane regions (''vertical transhumance''), it implies movement between higher pastures in summer and low ...
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Gypsy (term) The Romani people are known by a variety of names, mostly as ''Gypsies'', ''Roma, Romani'', ''Tsinganoi'', ''Bohémiens,'' and various linguistic variations of these names. There are also numerous subgroups and clans with their own self-designatio ...
* Gypsy (disambiguation) {{disambiguation