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Locum tenens

noun
1.
Someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession.  Synonym: locum.





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"Locum tenens" Quotes from Famous Books



... There were some Dispensary accounts to be explained, and some recent orders of the Surgeon-General to be noted, and, altogether, the taking-over was a full day's work. In the evening, Dumoise told his locum tenens, who was an old friend of his bachelor days, what had happened at Bagi; and the man said that Ram Dass might as well have chosen Tuticorin while he ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling


Words linked to "Locum tenens" :   backup man, fill-in, reliever, stand-in, substitute, relief, backup


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