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intern

Definition

  • noun: a student or recent graduate who works for a period of time at a job in order to get experience
  • noun: an advanced student or graduate usually in a professional field (as medicine or teaching) gaining supervised practical experience (as in a hospital or classroom)
  • verb: to confine or impound especially during a war
  • verb: to work as an intern
  • synonyms: internal, interior, inmate

Examples

  • They are protesting the government's decision to 'intern' citizens without evidence of wrongdoing.

  • After medical school, he worked as an 'intern' at the university hospital.

  • After medical school, he 'interned' at the university hospital.

Movie quotes

  • (..) S. Quentin Quale, aka Dr. Satan. Oh shit! Murderer, torturer, but most of all, master surgeon. Mr. Quail was an intern at Willows County Mental Hospital, nicknamed Weeping Willows for the neverending cries of pain. Through primitive brain surgery... - Jerry, stop it. (..)
    2003 House of 1000 Corpses