locum tenens

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌləʊkəm ˈtɛnɛns/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

locum tenentes plural locos tenentes plural

词源

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