externs in English

noun
1
a person working in but not living in an institution, such as a nonresident doctor or other worker in a hospital.
Collaboration between the extern or intern, clinical educator, and preceptor is extremely important if the student is to successfully achieve the goals.
2
(in a strictly enclosed order of nuns) a sister who does not live exclusively within the enclosure and goes on outside errands.
In the miniature society of the cloister, numbering between ten and eleven sisters and an extern or two, her success meets some of the same responses a successful worldly artist would find.

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