Definition of Locum

1. Noun. Someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession.

Exact synonyms: Locum Tenens
Generic synonyms: Backup, Backup Man, Fill-in, Relief, Reliever, Stand-in, Substitute

Definition of Locum

1. Noun. (British informal) Abbreviated form of locum tenens.The '''Concise Oxford English Dictionary''' [Eleventh Edition] ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Locum

1. a temporary substitute [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Locum

locsitons
loculament
loculaments
locular
loculate
loculated
loculation
loculation syndrome
locule
loculed
locules
loculi
loculicidal
loculous
loculus
locum (current term)
locum tenant
locum tenens
locum tenentes
locums
locus
locus ceruleus
locus cinereus
locus coeruleus
locus control region
locus ferrugineus
locus minoris resistentiae
locus niger
locus of control

Literary usage of Locum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life and Times of Henry Clay by Calvin Colton (1846)
"A locum Tenens.—Difficulty of the Secretary's Task.—His Reasons for removing the Deposites.—What Mr. Clay thought.—The Secretary lectures Congress on Law, ..."

2. Publications by English Historical Society (1841)
"mus bine, et ad locum unde ... et, communi- cato consilio, electos de conventu 1 rat res aliquot ad locum, quern vir ille ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Important in exegesis are his Annotationes in locum Gal. ii. 1-10 (Schönthaler Programm, .... locum ..."

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