locum tenens

1. 1.

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

   Synonymslocum

   Broaderstand-in

Questions about locum tenens

What does locum tenens mean?

locum tenens means "someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession".

What is another word for locum tenens?

Close synonyms include locum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is locum tenens a common word?

locum tenens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.