intern

Summer office learner

An intern is someone gaining supervised practical experience, typically a student or recent graduate working temporarily in a profession: She's doing a summer intern at the law firm.

Medical interns are newly graduated doctors in their first year of hospital training.

To intern someone is to confine them, especially during wartime: Japanese Americans were interned in camps during World War II.

The confinement sense comes from a different root than the trainee sense.

workplace

trainee

One being instructed

shadowing · rotation · entry-level · unpaid · summer · co-op · experience · resume · networking · placement

detain

imprison

Confine as punishment

camp · wartime · detention · restrict · quarantine · hold · custody · captivity · confinement · relocate

medical

resident

One who inhabits

surgeon · rotation · rounds · residency · fellowship · attending · on-call · clinical · ward · hospital

Categories
Opposites
confinement status

internrelease

To let go

free · liberate · discharge · emancipate · set free

professional experience level

internexecutive

Senior organizational leader

senior partner · CEO · veteran · expert · director

Phrases
Family

internet, internal, interior, international, intestine, interns, internship, internally, internment

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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G