- travelling from one place to another and not staying anywhere permanently
- a roving reporter for ABC news
- Patrick's roving lifestyle takes him between London and Los Angeles.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRoving is used with these nouns:- ambassador
- commission
- reporter
- …
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Idioms
See roving in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryhave a roving eye
- (old-fashioned) to always be looking for the chance to have a new sexual relationship
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