intern
noun
• a student or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.
intern
verb
• confine (someone) as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons.
• "the family were interned for the duration of the war as enemy aliens"
Similar:
imprison,
incarcerate,
impound,
jail,
put in jail,
put behind bars,
detain,
take into custody,
hold in custody,
hold captive,
hold,
lock up,
keep under lock and key,
confine,
put away,
put inside,
send down,
bang up,
immure,
• serve as an intern.
Origin:
early 16th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘internal’): from French interne (adjective), interner (verb), from Latin internus ‘inward, internal’. Current senses date from the 19th century.
