deputy to the locum tenens

  • 1Locum tenens — Lo cum te nens . [L., holding the place; locus place + tenens, p. pr. of tenere to hold. Cf. {Lieutenant}.] A substitute or deputy; one filling an office for a time. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 2locum tenens — /lowkam tiynanz/°tenV. Lat. Holding the place, a deputy, substitute, lieutenant, or representative …

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  • 3locum tenens — /lowkam tiynanz/°tenV. Lat. Holding the place, a deputy, substitute, lieutenant, or representative …

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  • 4locum te|nens — «TEE nuhnz», plural locum te|nen|tes «tuh NEHN teez», a person temporarily holding the place or office of another; deputy; substitute: »There s this locum tenens I was going to take up in the North (A. S. M. Hutchinson). ╂[< Medieval Latin… …

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  • 5locum — the term for ‘a deputy standing in for a doctor or cleric’ is pronounced loh kǝm, and the plural is locums. The word is short for locum tenens ‘one holding the place’, which is occasionally used in more formal contexts. The plural of the full… …

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  • 6Deputy — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deputy >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deputy deputy substitute vice proxy locum tenens badli delegate representative next friend surrogate secondary GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 regent …

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  • 7Deputy lieutenant — Lieutenant Lieu*ten ant (l[ u]*t[e^]n ant), n. [F., fr. lieu place + tenant holding, p. pr. of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See {Lieu}, and {Tenant}, and cf. {Locum tenens}.] 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a… …

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  • 8Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union — The history of Orthodoxy Christianity (and other religions) in the Soviet Union was not limited to this story of repression and secularization. Communist policies toward religious belief and practice tended to vacillate over time between, on the… …

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  • 9History of the Russian Orthodox Church — Foundation by St. AndrewThe Russian Orthodox Church is traditionally said to have been founded by the Apostle Andrew, who is thought to have visited Scythia and Greek colonies along the northern coast of the Black Sea. According to one of the… …

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  • 10List of Captains, Lieutenants and Lords Deputies of English Calais — The town of Calais, now part of France, was in English hands from 1347 to 1558, and this page lists the commanders of Calais, holding office from the English Crown, called at different times Captain of Calais, King s Lieutenant of Calais (Castle) …

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