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Temporary deputy
Answer for the clue "Temporary deputy ", 5 letters:
locum
Alternative clues for the word locum
- Someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession
- Substitute doctor
- Someone standing in temporarily for another of the same profession
- Look about to get posh male doctor
- -- tenens (temporary officeholder)
- Knock over pass, I'm not sure for the substitute
- Temporary replacement doctor
Word definitions for locum in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A locum is a person who temporarily fulfills the duties of another. For example, a locum physician is a physician who works in the place of the regular physician when that physician is absent, or when a hospital/practice is short-staffed. These professionals ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession [syn: locum tenens ]
Usage examples of locum.
Quorum omnis postea multitudo aquatorum unum in locum conveniebat sub ipsius oppidi murum, ubi magnus fons aquae prorumpebat ab ea parte, quae fere pedum CCC intervallo fluminis circuitu vacabat.
Sir Isaac Newton says: Hypotheses non fingo, quicquid enim ex phaenomenis non deducitur hypothesis vocanda est, et hypothesis vel metaphysicae, vel physicae, vel qualitatum occultarum, seu mechanicae, in philosophia locum non habent.
Quod cum crebrius accideret, ex captivo quodam comperit Caesar Correum, Bellovacorum ducem, fortissimorum milia sex peditum delegisse equitesque ex omni numero mille, quos in insidiis eo loco collocaret, quem in locum propter copiam frumenti ac pabuli Romanos missuros suspicaretur.
Barry Jones had gone back to his native Wales, no Guernsey candidate had presented him or herself for the vacancy, and Brian Bradshaw, with the evident support of John Coquelin, had offered the junior partnership to his locum, Anna.
Fort George to the harbour, where she had stayed with the Bradshaw dog an4 cats at the start of her time in Guernsey as locum for a holidaying Brian a six-month lifetime earlier.
Quis igitur Sesonchosis ille, qui, Menen antevertens annis amplius 5000, inter Semideos locum habere videatur?
Repulsi ab equitatu se in silvas abdiderunt, locum nacti egregie et natura et opere munitum, quem domestici belli, ut videbantur, causa iam ante praeparaverant: nam crebris arboribus succisis omnes introitus erant praeclusi.
Labienus faciendas curaverat numero LX, perpaucae locum caperent, reliquae fere omnes reicerentur.
Eo cum pervenisset, ad reliquas legiones mittit priusque omnes in unum locum cogit quam de eius adventu Arvernis nuntiari posset.
In eius locum tertiam decimam legionem in Italiam mittit quae praesidia tueretur, ex quibus praesidiis quinta decima deducebatur.
The local doc - the guy who'd helped save Andy after he almost died under the ice all those years earlier - was on holiday at the time and there was a locum, a deputising doctor in charge of the practice, except from what the locals muttered later it seemed he'd treated his stay in Strathspeld as a holiday, too, and spent more time on river banks with a rod in his hands than at bedsides toting a stethoscope.