intern
1a resident member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually a recent medical school graduate serving under supervision.
Education. student teacher.
a person who works as an apprentice or trainee in an occupation or profession to gain practical experience, and sometimes also to satisfy legal or other requirements for being licensed or accepted professionally.
to be or perform the duties of an intern.
Origin of intern
1- Sometimes in·terne .
Other definitions for intern (2 of 3)
to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
to impound or hold within a country until the termination of a war, as a ship of a belligerent that has put into a neutral port and remained beyond a limited period.
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
Origin of intern
2Other definitions for intern (3 of 3)
Origin of intern
3Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use intern in a sentence
He's suggesting that he sees us getting married and having a child within about 10 years, after he has interned and traveled and blah blah blah.
Carolyn Hax: The 10-year plan is his brainchild. Her 5-year plan is a child child. | Carolyn Hax | November 19, 2020 | Washington PostOne time we hired this summer intern and his job was to do the newspaper inserts for Pittsburgh, and the guy was so incompetent that he just didn’t do it.
Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 1: TV) (Ep. 440) | Stephen J. Dubner | November 19, 2020 | FreakonomicsThe company has 20 employees, including some long-term interns.
Here, interns, startups, students, and scientists mingle to cook new dairy and alternative products that are both healthier for humans and the planet.
This snack food giant wants to wean us off our lockdown cravings | Bernhard Warner | November 7, 2020 | FortuneI started interning at 60 Minutes, and then they hired me full-time.
Why the Left Had to Steal the Right’s Dark-Money Playbook (Bonus Episode) | Sudhir Venkatesh | October 31, 2020 | Freakonomics
I interned on the Whoopi Goldberg movie The Long Walk Home, and went around the South working as a casting associate.
Octavia Spencer on Hollywood and Race: The Film Roles I’m Offered Are Too Small | Marlow Stern | July 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIronically, he has been swiftly interned in the same cemetery where Hakimullah, his enemy, was recently buried.
Hitmen Take Out Haqqani Network Bigwig Nasiruddin Haqqani | Ron Moreau | November 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTScott once interned in Moschino's press office -- and thenwent on to launch his eponymous label in 2007.
Kanye West Slams Louis Vuitton; Jeremy Scott Named New Creative Director at Moschino | The Fashion Beast Team | October 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBorn in Shanghai in 1930, Ballard and his parents were interned at the Lunghua Camp when the Japanese invaded during World War II.
This Week’s Hot Reads: Feb. 4, 2013 | Jimmy So, G. Clay Whittaker, Tunku Varadarajan | February 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThis summer, I interned for Matt Lewis at the Daily Caller, which was a wild ride entry into DC political writing.
Or is he interned in the searchlight apparatus at Charing Cross to insure it against attack by Zeppelins?
It ended in April 1896 in the flight of the rebel leaders to German territory, where they were interned.
Interned like the anchor-chafing ships That once had flown his flag!
With the Colors | Everard Jack AppletonThe great majority of these were interned at or soon after the declaration of war.
Perhaps Bill the Blackfaceman would be going over––if he had not stayed in Germany too long and been interned there.
The Cup of Fury | Rupert Hughes
British Dictionary definitions for intern
(ɪnˈtɜːn) (tr) to detain or confine (foreign or enemy citizens, ships, etc), esp during wartime
(ˈɪntɜːn) (intr) mainly US to serve or train as an intern
another word for internee
Also: interne med, US and Canadian a graduate in the first year of practical training after medical school, resident in a hospital and under supervision by senior doctors: British equivalent: house officer
mainly US a student teacher
mainly US a student or recent graduate receiving practical training in a working environment
Origin of intern
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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