intern
noun/ˈɪntɜːn/
/ˈɪntɜːrn/
- a student or new graduate who is getting practical experience in a job, sometimes without pay, for example during the summer holiday
- a summer intern at a law firm
Extra ExamplesTopics Working lifec1- Microsoft came to Harvard Business School to recruit summer interns.
- He began work at the White House as an unpaid intern.
- She hired an intern when she had too much work to handle herself.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- unpaid
- summer
- psychology
- …
- hire
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- (North American English) an advanced student of medicine whose training is nearly finished and who is working in a hospital to get further practical experience
- Interns and residents at the hospital are working 12-hour shifts.
- Interns in hospitals learn how to act professionally in the most dire emergencies.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- unpaid
- summer
- psychology
- …
- hire
see also internship
Word Originearly 16th cent. (as an adjective in the sense ‘internal’): from French interne (adjective), interner (verb), from Latin internus ‘inward, internal’. Current senses date from the 19th cent.
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