Definitions for intern

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intern in·tern

Spelling: [verb in-turn; noun in-turn]

IPA: /verb ɪnˈtɜrn; noun ˈɪn tɜrn/

Intern is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in intern (einnrt).

Definitions for intern

noun

1. a person who is or has been interned; internee.
2. a resident member of the medical staff of a hospital, usually a recent medical school graduate serving under supervision.
3. Education. student teacher.
4. a person who works as an apprentice or trainee in an occupation or profession to gain practical experience, and sometimes also to satisfy legal or other requirements for being licensed or accepted professionally.

adjective

1. internal.

verb (used with object)

1. to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troops who take refuge in a neutral country.
2. to impound or hold within a country until the termination of a war, as a ship of a belligerent that has put into a neutral port and remained beyond a limited period.

verb (used without object)

1. to be or perform the duties of an intern.

Origin of intern

1865-70; French interner, verbal derivative of interne intern³

Examples for intern

I would recommend her to an intern, who is under great obligations to me.

They ought to intern everyone who's the least bit under suspicion.

In the list of birds now fully extinct, in the Proceedings of the Fourth intern.

Even though his undergraduate studies had led him to be a vegetarian, he decided to intern with a small pork producer.

Did you have to intern and PA on a lot of films before breaking through?

When I became aware that an intern of mine had been sexually harassed by a producer while making the film, I was blown away.

Eight years of school and two more as an intern were worth at least that.

Our fears coming uppermost, we gave voice to them: "intern?"

Inside the squirrel suit, an intern named Justin can be found.

Somehow she also found time to intern at the U.S. Department of Education and help build a school in Mali.