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residency
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of dwelling in a place [syn: residence , abidance ] the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Residency is a stage of graduate medical training . A resident or house officer is a physician (one who holds the degree of M.D. , D.O. , D.M.D. , D.P.M. or MBBS, MBChB, or BMed ) who practices medicine usually in a hospital or clinic under the direct or ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "residence;" see resident + -cy . Hospital sense is from 1924.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The courts awarded residency to Trisha's father. ▪ The parent who has residency often loses touch with the other partner's parents, meaning that the children lose one set of grandparents. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But applicants ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) The position or term of a medical resident 2 The position of a musical artist who commonly performs at a particular venue 3 The condition of being a resident of a particular place 4 The home or residence of a person, especially ...
Usage examples of residency.
Ennet House residency, the agonizing desire to ingest synthetic narcotics had been mysteriously magically removed from Don Gately, just like the House Staff and the Crocodiles at the White Flag Group had said it would if he pounded out the nightly meetings and stayed minimally open and willing to persistently ask some extremely vague Higher Power to remove it.
Since their residency on Selva predates that of the colonists, they cannot be removed from the planet without their consent, according to regulation 3144.
The Residency is on a steepish hill in the middle of an open valley, partially cleared and much defaced by tin diggings.
It did, and in 1993, he began his anesthesiology residency at UMC in Jackson.
All we have to be is eighteen or older, bondable, possessing a car and a home phone and having one year of Minnesota residency.
The corollary to all this was that I should immediately quit gynecology, go back and do another residency and start all over again.
Residency, when one of the British guards shouted and pointed his rifle at an urchin who was being urged by a man to squirt the English Memsahib with the pink dye.
The INS believed 95 per cent of sannyasin marriages with American citizens were fraudulently arranged to gain permanent residency, and that Rajneesh and other temporary visa holders had deliberately deceived the authorities.
Alex stared unbelievingly at the long expanse of roadway, white in the moonlight, that stretched away to the left and right past the Residency gateway.
The Commitments were a revitalized outfit on the third Wednesday of the residency.
At the Residency another thousand men encamped, with a hundred hillsmen and eighty English, under the command of Tang-a-Dahit and McDermot.
A few hundred native troops and a handful of hillsmen rode up and down, and at the Residency fifty men kept guard under command of Sergeant Doolan of the artillery--his superior officers and the rest of his comrades were at the Palace.
Having absorbed this information, he put the gong handle through his belt—from which he had removed it for the sake of comfort, while eating breakfast—and went out of the Residency and up the street toward the blacksmithy.
The Residency stands by itself, Calaboose Hill screening it from the fringe of town along the further bay.
The Residency stands by itself, Calaboose Hill screening it from the fringe of town along the further bay.