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Internee

One who is interned or confined, especially in wartime.

Intern

A student or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.

Internee

One who is imprisoned or otherwise confined.

Intern

Confine (someone) as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons
The family were interned for the duration of the war as enemy aliens

Internee

A person who is interned;
The internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists
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Intern

Serve as an intern.

Intern

A student or a recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training.

Intern

A physician who has recently graduated from medical school and is learning medical practice in a hospital under supervision, prior to beginning a residency program.

Intern

One who is interned; an internee.

Intern

To train or serve as an intern.
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Intern

To confine, especially in wartime.

Intern

A person who is interned, forcibly or voluntarily.

Intern

A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.

Intern

A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training.

Intern

(transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Intern

To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.

Intern

To internalize.

Intern

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Intern

(intransitive) To work as an intern. Usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.

Intern

(archaic) Internal.

Intern

Internal.

Intern

To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.

Intern

To hold until the end of a war, as enemy citizens in a country at the time of outbreak of hostilities; - an action performed by countries.

Intern

A resident physician in a hospital, especially one who has recently received the Doctorate and is practising under supervision of experienced physicians, as a continuation of the training process; a house physician; also called houseman in Britain.

Intern

A person working as an apprentice to gain experience in an occupation; sometimes the position is paid a salary, and other times it is not; as, a white house intern; an intern in a law firm.

Intern

An advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)

Intern

Deprive of freedom;
During WWII, Japanese were interned in camps in the West

Intern

Work as an intern;
The toung doctor is interning at the Medical Center this year

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