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locos tenentes

locos tenentes is the plural of locum tenens.

Meaning of locum tenens

Noun

locum tenens (plural locum tenentes or locos tenentes)

  1. A professional person (such as a doctor or clergyman) who temporarily fulfills the duties of another.
    • […] who speedily installed his Son […] into the office of Collector of Taxes, as a warming-pan, or locum tenens, till his Father-in-Law's twelvemonths of mock-heroic dignity had expired—or he should think proper to resume the Collectorship.1820, The Steeliad, a Poem, in Three Cantos, page 35
    Synonyms:
    locum, proxy, stand-in

Questions about locos tenentes

What is locos tenentes the plural of?
Locos tenentes is the plural of locum tenens.

Words near locos tenentes in the dictionary

  1. loconyms
  2. locoregional
  3. locoregionally
  4. locorestive
  5. locos
  6. locos tenentes
  7. locoshed
  8. locosheds
  9. locospotter
  10. locospotters
  11. locospotting

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