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externship

American

[ek-sturn-ship] / ˈɛk stɜrnˌʃɪp /

noun

a required period of supervised practice done off campus or away from one's affiliated institution.

The young doctor served six months of externship at a nearby clinic.

Etymology

Origin of externship

First recorded in 1940–45; extern + -ship

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My next discovery of the joy of fennel was after culinary school, during an externship at an Italian restaurant in Manhattan.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025

Tamara Cedillo, 23, spends about “four long hours” a day traveling by bus from the three-bedroom house she shares with roommates in Carson to an externship as a medical assistant at the Torrance Urology Clinic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023

She did her externship with Charles Walpole, then at Anchovies & Olives.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Then an opportunity arose through the players association to complete an externship with a sitting member of Congress.

From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2018

Eppley sees participating in the trail as “kind of a funny full-circle moment” — he did an externship in 2010 after culinary school at that very spot.

From Washington Post

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