Definition of "locum" []

• A locum-tenens (in medical practice). (noun)
• The temporary place occupied by a locum-tenens. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Professor R.J. Tarrant has tentatively suggested something like _inque locum ... redit_, but questions whether _in locum_, even just after"
• ""In the meantime, it is sometimes necessary to appoint short-term locum doctors to provide essential medical cover.""
• "So I called a locum to come to the house and fix us both - a computer doctor named Stan, who arrived in his computer doctor uniform consisting of ill-fitting jeans that slumped round his manly, child-bearing hips and a shirt pocket weighed down with 800 router cables."