Synonyms for locum
- backup
- replacement
- stand-in
- surrogate
- agent
- alternate
- assistant
- auxiliary
- changeling
- delegate
- deputy
- double
- dummy
- equivalent
- expediency
- expedient
- fill-in
- ghost
- makeshift
- procurator
- proxy
- recourse
- refuge
- relay
- relief
- representative
- reserve
- resort
- resource
- standby
- stopgap
- sub
- succedaneum
- successor
- supplanter
- supply
- symbol
- temp
- temporary
- understudy
- vicar
- dernier ressort
- ghost writer
- locum tenens
- pinch-hitter
- temporary expedient
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR LOCUM
He obtained a locum tenens, and gave up the time to pilot me round.
For the corruption, compare the common misreading of locum for solum.
Of course, I could soon get a locum if there was a chance of mother.
He was acting as locum tenens for a friend who was enjoying his holiday abroad.
And the fact that you are a locum tenens doesn't, I think, alter the situation.
But his locum tenens did not possess a copy and had no right to demand one.
Also, the locum tenens at Fulcombe no doubt runs the parish as well as I could.
Meanwhile however Mephistopheles presents himself and is accepted as a locum tenens.
Deus posuit eam in locum quendam communem, quem in tua rhetorica non habes nec in philosophia tua; is vocatur fides.
I could not spare more than a fortnight from work, leaving Lennard as my locum tenens.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR LOCUM
substitute
nounsomeone or something that takes the place of another- agent
- alternate
- assistant
- auxiliary
- backup
- changeling
- delegate
- deputy
- dernier ressort
- double
- dummy
- equivalent
- expediency
- expedient
- fill-in
- ghost
- ghost writer
- locum
- locum tenens
- makeshift
- pinch-hitter
- procurator
- proxy
- recourse
- refuge
- relay
- relief
- replacement
- representative
- reserve
- resort
- resource
- stand-in
- standby
- stopgap
- sub
- succedaneum
- successor
- supplanter
- supply
- surrogate
- symbol
- temp
- temporary
- temporary expedient
- understudy
- vicar
substitutes
nounsomeone or something that takes the place of another- agent
- alternate
- assistant
- auxiliary
- backup
- changeling
- delegate
- deputy
- dernier ressort
- double
- dummy
- equivalent
- expediency
- expedient
- fill-in
- ghost
- ghost writer
- locum
- locum tenens
- makeshift
- pinch-hitter
- procurator
- proxy
- recourse
- refuge
- relay
- relief
- replacement
- representative
- reserve
- resort
- resource
- stand-in
- standby
- stopgap
- sub
- succedaneum
- successor
- supplanter
- supply
- surrogate
- symbol
- temp
- temporary
- temporary expedient
- understudy
- vicar