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means A person who earns their living remotely via the internet while traveling or living in different places rather than staying tied to one office.

from A late-20th-century coinage riding two words with very different histories: 'digital' comes from Latin digitus, 'finger' (the things we originally counted with, later lending its name to digits, numbers, and all things computerized), while 'nomad' traces back through Latin and Greek nomas to a root meaning 'to pasture' or 'roam for grazing' — the same idea behind ancient herders who moved with their flocks. The phrase itself took off in the 1990s and 2000s as laptops and then wifi made it possible to 'graze' for work from cafés and beaches instead of fixed pastures.