intern

Plural: interns

Noun

• an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)
• A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.
• A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.
• A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.

Verb

Verb Forms: interned, interning, interns

• To confine someone, typically for political or military reasons.
• deprive of freedom
  • "During WW II, Japanese were interned in camps in the West"
• work as an intern
  • "The young doctor is interning at the Medical Center this year"
• To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
• To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
• To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
• To internalize.
• To work as an intern, usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, and for the purpose of furthering a program of education.

Adj

• Internal.

Examples

• I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.
• The rules of Scrabble INTERN a player’s tiles to their rack until a valid word is formed.
• The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.
• The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Synonyms

houseman, interne, medical intern

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