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

synoniem: locum.

Roget 147: substitution, commutation; supplanting etc. v.; metaphor, metonymy etc. (figure of speech) 521.    [Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller [Fr.], stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative.    representative etc. (deputy) 759; palimpsest.    price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 759: deputy, substitute, vice, proxy, locum tenens, badli^†, delegate, representative, next friend, surrogate, secondary.    regent, viceregent^†, vizier, minister, vicar; premier etc. (director) 694; chancellor, prefect, provost, warden, lieutenant, archon, consul, proconsul; viceroy etc. (governor) 745; commissioner etc. 758; Tsung-li Yamen, Wai Wu Pu; plenipotentiary, alter ego.    team, eight, eleven; champion.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 188: inhabitant; resident, residentiary^†; dweller, indweller^†; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant^†; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan^†, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier^†, cotter; compatriot; backsettler^†, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter.    native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones^†; Englishman, John Bull; newcomer etc. (stranger) 57.    aboriginal, American^†, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck [Slang], downeaster [U.S.], Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan.    garrison, crew; population; people etc. (mankind) 372; colony, settlement; household; mir^†.    ... meer laten zien

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