itinérance
See also: itinerance
French
FWOTD – 20 May 2021
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.ti.ne.ʁɑ̃s/
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Noun
itinérance f (plural itinérances)
- (literary) act of traveling without a particular goal or destination
- Synonym: errance
- (Europe) pedestrian traveling done for pleasure; hiking; backpacking
- (telecommunications, telephony) the ability to use a cell phone outside of its original registering zone; roaming
- 2016, Daniel Battu, Economie des réseaux de communication. Etat des lieux et futur, page 118:
- Le coût élevé de l’itinérance mobile est une question qui préoccupe aussi les pays en développement.
- The increased costs of roaming are an issue that also concerns developing countries.
- (chiefly Quebec) homelessness
- Synonyms: (Europe) sans-abrisme, vagabondage
- 2016 May, Ligue des droits et libertés, section de Québec, L’itinérance et la loi, page 5:
- Ainsi, dans le but de documenter plus largement ces enjeux contemporains, nous avons choisi d’examiner la pénalisation de l’itinérance depuis le XVIIe siècle à Québec.
- So for the purpose of documenting these contemporary more extensively, we have chosen to investigate the way vagrancy has been punished since the seventeenth century in Quebec.
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Further reading
- “itinérance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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