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extern

American  
[ek-sturn, ik-sturn] / ˈɛk stɜrn, ɪkˈstɜrn /

noun

  1. a person connected with an institution but not residing in it, as a doctor or medical student at a hospital.

  2. a nun of a strictly enclosed order, as the Carmelites, who resides inside the convent but outside its enclosure and who chiefly goes on outside errands.

adjective

  1. Archaic. external; outer.

extern British  
/ ɪkˈstɜːn, ˈɛkstɜːn /

noun

  1. a person, such as a physician at a hospital, who has an official connection with an institution but does not reside in it

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Etymology

Origin of extern

1525–35; < Latin externus, derivative of exter, exterus. See exterior

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