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locum tenentes

UK/ˌləʊkəm tɛˈnɛntɛs/

locum 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 locum tenentes

What is locum tenentes the plural of?
Locum tenentes is the plural of locum tenens.
How do you pronounce locum tenentes?
Locum tenentes is pronounced /ˌləʊkəm tɛˈnɛntɛs/ (UK).

Words near locum tenentes in the dictionary

  1. loculous
  2. loculus
  3. locum
  4. locum tenency
  5. locum tenens
  6. locum tenentes
  7. locums
  8. locumship
  9. locumships
  10. locundioside
  11. locuplete

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