digital nomad

English

Noun

digital nomad (plural digital nomads)

1. Someone who earns a living from telecommunication technology while living in a nomadic manner, typically working remotely from various locations such as coffee shops and public libraries.
   • 2020 November 8, Erin Griffith, “The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Their logic was as enviable as it was unattainable for everyone else: If you’re going to work from home indefinitely, why not make a new home in an exotic place? This tiny cohort gathered their MacBooks, passports and N95 masks and became digital nomads.

   • 2022 September 25, Stephen Burgen, “Spain plans ‘digital nomad’ visa scheme to attract remote workers”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Spain plans to issue “digital nomad” visas giving Britons and other non-EU citizens the chance to work in the sun and enjoy a lower cost of living with tax breaks thrown in for good measure.

Related terms

• digital nomadism

Translations

someone who earns a living from telecommunication technology

• Finnish: diginomadi
• French: nomade numérique m
• German: digitaler Nomade m, digitale Nomadin f
• Polish: cyfrowy nomada m, cyfrowa nomadka f
• Russian: цифрово́й коче́вник m (cifrovój kočévnik), цифрово́й нома́д m (cifrovój nomád), онла́йн-коче́вник m (onlájn-kočévnik)
• Spanish: nómada digital m or f