Meaning & use
peripatetic
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Traveling from place to place, especially for work; itinerant.
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As a peripatetic musician, she rarely stayed in one city for more than a month.
The peripatetic professor taught at three different universities each semester.
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Originally described Aristotle's school of philosophy, whose members reportedly walked about while discussing ideas.
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