interned

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We shall be disarmed and interned, and our fighting days will be over. "

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  1. noun A student or a recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun One who is interned; an internee.
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  • I was determined at all costs not to be interned, and decided on my own initiative to fight my way home. —  Commandant of Auschwitz
  • I am here referring to the majority of those interned, the real wandering gypsies, as well as to those of mixed blood who had become akin to them. —  Commandant of Auschwitz
  • He was the only MP to be so interned, and was not released until September 1944. —  Airminded
  • He has a great American story -- interned during the war with his family, becomes a big television star, gets married, and his marriage becomes illegal -- all the best and the worst. —  LAist
  • They didn't strike over being arrested without charges, interned, and tortured. —  Libertarian Blog Place
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