LOCUM TENENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does locum tenens mean? 

• LOCUM TENENS (noun)
  The noun LOCUM TENENS has 1 sense:

1. someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession

  Familiarity information: LOCUM TENENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCUM TENENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

locum; locum tenens

Hypernyms ("locum tenens" is a kind of...):

backup; backup man; fill-in; relief; reliever; stand-in; substitute (someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult))

 Context examples 

You must remember, said Summerlee, sourly, that I have a large class in London who are at present at the mercy of an extremely inefficient locum tenens.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)