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   In·tern

   noun

   • 1. a student or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, at a trade or occupation in order to gain work experience.
   • ▪ a recent medical graduate receiving supervised training in a hospital and acting as an assistant physician or surgeon.

   verb

   • 1. confine (someone) as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons: "the family were interned for the duration of the war as enemy aliens"
   • 2. serve as an intern. North American

   Word Origin early 16th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘internal’): from French interne (adjective), interner (verb), from Latin internus ‘inward, internal’. Current senses date from the 19th century.

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