locum tenens
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locum tenens
- /ˌləʊkəm ˈtɛnɛns/ UK
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Existing in English since the seventeenth century: from Medieval Latin locum tenēns (literally “one holding a place”). Doublet of lieutenant.
noun locum tenentes · locos tenentes
- 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.
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noun someone who temporarily fulfills the duties of another
| Deutsch | Stellvertreter, Vertretungsperson, Vertreter |
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