Placement vs Intern - What's the difference?
placement | intern |
The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
A location or position.
The act of matching a person with a job
To imprison somebody, usually without trial.
# To confine or hold (foreign military personnel who stray into the state's territory) within prescribed limits during wartime.
(computing) To internalize.
To work as an intern. Usually with little or no pay or other legal prerogatives of employment, for the purpose of furthering a program of education.
A student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field
A medical student or recent graduate working in a hospital as a final part of medical training
As nouns the difference between placement and intern
is that placement is the act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed while intern is a person who is interned, forceably or voluntarily or intern can be a student or recent graduate who works in order to gain experience in their chosen field.As a verb intern is
to imprison somebody, usually without trial.As an adjective intern is
(archaic) internal.placement
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Noun
(en noun)- It seems to me that the placement of that post could be better.
- The agency does not guarantee placement , but they work on commission.
Derived terms
* job placement * product placementintern
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Alternative forms
* interne (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) , compareVerb
(en verb)- The US government interned thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
- The Swiss government interned the Italian soldiers who had strayed onto Swiss territory.
- I'll be interning at Universal Studios this summer.