house officer
houseman
/ (ˈhaʊsmən) /
med a doctor who is the most junior member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually resident in the hospital: US and Canadian equivalent: intern
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How to use house officer in a sentence
For a chemical brother spilt sulphuric acid over the first, and the second married a custom-house officer.
Somehow Good | William de MorganA party of smugglers caught a custom-house officer and a shoemaker on their way to give evidence.
Henry Fielding: A Memoir | G. M. GoddenThe custom-house officer rushed out in horror, followed by his hounds who licked his hands as they ran, and made them quite red.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8) | Guy de MaupassantHe comes between the statesman and the clerk, just as the custom-house officer stands between the civil and the military.
Bureaucracy | Honore de BalzacBy the time the custom-house officer has examined and chalked your luggage, the telephone connection has been made.
Peeps at many lands: Sweden | William Liddle
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