Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A locum-tenens (in medical practice).
- noun The temporary place occupied by a locum-tenens.
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- noun someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession
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Examples
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Professor R.J. Tarrant has tentatively suggested something like _inque locum ... redit_, but questions whether _in locum_, even just after
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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"In the meantime, it is sometimes necessary to appoint short-term locum doctors to provide essential medical cover."
BBC News - Home 2011
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Their average student debt was $76,000, and money was the main reason for choosing to work overseas or to take short-term locum jobs, the study said.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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Dr Joseph has been offered several jobs, including long-term locum GP posts in Workington and Egremont, and work with Cumbria Health On Call (CHOC), the county's out-of-hours GP service.
News round-up 2010
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So I called a locum to come to the house and fix us both - a computer doctor named Stan, who arrived in his computer doctor uniform consisting of ill-fitting jeans that slumped round his manly, child-bearing hips and a shirt pocket weighed down with 800 router cables.
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So I called a locum to come to the house and fix us both - a computer doctor named Stan, who arrived in his computer doctor uniform consisting of ill-fitting jeans that slumped round his manly, child-bearing hips and a shirt pocket weighed down with 800 router cables.
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Dr Joseph has been offered several jobs, including long-term locum GP posts in Workington and Egremont, and work with Cumbria Health On Call (CHOC), the county's out-of-hours GP service.
News round-up 2010
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The company, which takes its name from the Latin phrase meaning "to stand in another's place," matches hospitals with what the medical field calls locum tenens doctors.
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Ron Vanden Brink So he began taking on temporary medical assignments, called locum tenens, where he practiced in underserved towns across the U.S. for a few months at a time.
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-- Lorin. in locum); yet that way Paul would take, 1.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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