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Locum tenens

//ˌləʊkəm ˈtɛnɛns// noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession wordnet

Etymology

Existing in English since the seventeenth century: from Medieval Latin locum tenēns (literally “one holding a place”). Doublet of lieutenant.

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